What’s New in Education

Arts education will keep California students in school and prepare them for careers; Ben Allen, The Sacramento Bee, May 14, 2018
Students Learn Less When They Sense Teacher Hostility; Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week, May 11, 2018
Research finds reading aloud has many benefits, from birth on; Linda Jacobson, Education Dive, May 11, 2018
Free textbooks? Federal government is on track with pilot program; Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, May 8, 2018
New science test must be part of California’s school accountability system; Jill Grace and Vincent Stewart, EdSource, May 7, 2018
Learning Is Social, Emotional, and Academic; Linda Darling-Hammond and Tim Shriver, Education Week, May 1, 2018
Curiosity Is as Good as Self-Control at Predicting Student Success, Study Finds; Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week, April 30, 2018
28,000 LA preschoolers are learning how to be better humans; Priska Neely, KPCC, April 30, 2018
What’s Actually Working in the Classroom?; Ted Dintersmith, Education Week, April 30, 2018
Challenging 2nd-Graders to Be Critical Thinkers, Problem Solvers, & World Changers; Sara Miller, Education Week, April 25, 2018
The Brain Science Is In: Students’ Emotional Needs Matter; Jim Shelton, Education Week, April 24, 2018
Discipline Disparities Grow for Students of Color, New Federal Data Show; Sarah D. Sparks and Alyson Klein, Education Week, April 24, 2018
Why Can’t Charter Schools and Teachers’ Unions Be Friends?; Elena Gooray, Pacific Standard, April 24, 2018
See Changes California and Florida Have Made to Their ESSA Plans to Win Betsy DeVos’ Approval; Mark Keierleber, The 74, April 24, 2018
How the Push for Preschool Teachers to Earn Costly College Degrees Could Strain a System in Which Wages Are Only Half of K-12 Teachers’; Kevin Mahnken, The 74, April 24, 2018
Rural schools find ways to bring science innovations closer to home; Carolyn Jones, EdSource, April 24, 2018
Ways to Integrate Writing Into Science Classes; Larry Ferlazzo, Education Week, April 21, 2018
Teaching History With STE(A)M; Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers, Education Week, April 19, 2018
Gates Foundation Eyes Middle Years Math Instruction; Stephen Sawchuk, Education Week, April 18, 2018
Why Principals Are Embracing Personalized Learning; Michelle R. Davis, Education Week, April 17, 2018
Principals Warm Up to Computer Science, Despite Obstacles; Benjamin Herold and Sarah Schwartz, Education Week, April 17, 2018
Focusing on the language skills of English Learners key to boosting math scores; Ashley Hopkinson, EdSource, April 16, 2018
Illuminating science for blind students, with help from latest tech devices; Carolyn Jones, EdSource, April 10, 2018
Using creative classroom design to promote instructional innovation; Tara Garcia Mathewson, Hechinger Report, April 4, 2018
‘Starbucks classrooms,’ plus six other new approaches in education; James Paterson, The Washington Post, April 3, 2018