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Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

Andrea Whitmarsh, for sharing how the Greene County Public Schools in Virginia are mobilizing during these early days! If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. Independent OpenCourseware Study (IOCS) implemented in 2012.

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Opening the doors to elite public schools

The Hechinger Report

The move is spurring hope among school desegregation advocates who want the exam schools to look more like Boston’s public schools overall. But the temporary change has also been met with outrage: Some say eliminating the tests could destroy the very backbone and utility of exam schools.

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Three quarters of U.S. public school spending cuts restored

The Hechinger Report

National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. more on public schools during the 2014-15 school year than in the previous year. “School districts still aren’t where they were before the cuts hit.”

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Gen Z Is Growing Up in Education Upheaval. How Are Teens Doing?

ED Surge

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). In 2011 and 2012, when the oldest Zoomers were 15, that rate peaked with 46 percent of them living in low-income households.

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With Students Lagging Globally in Science, the U.S. Looks to Inspire an Untapped Resource

A Principal's Reflections

The following is a guest post by Westfield Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Paul Pineiro. News STEM Summit 2012. Underlying the lagging performance of U.S. And of the women who do earn STEM degrees, the U.S World News and Report. You can follow Paul on Twitter at @paulpineiro.

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Coronavirus Chronicles 003 – Bismarck Public Schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thank you, Ben Johnson and Tanna Kincaid , for sharing how the Bismarck Public Schools in North Dakota have been adapting to our new reality. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.