What’s News in Education

• What the New Reading Wars Get Wrong; Mia Hood, Ed Week, September 10, 2019
• Teachers Still Believe in ‘Learning Styles’ and Other Myths About Cognition; Madeline Will, Ed Week Teacher, September 5, 2019
• Is homework too easy? With half of parents expressing concerns, new study says students’ assignments lack rigor, favor lower-level skills; Brendan Lowe, LA School Report, September 3, 2019
• Teachers Nationwide Now Have Access to Open-Source Science Curriculum; Sarah Schwartz, Ed Week, August 28, 2019
• Flipped Classrooms May Exacerbate Student Achievement Gaps. Here’s How; Sarah D. Sparks, Inside School Research, August 23, 2019
• The ‘1619 Project’ curriculum challenges teachers to reframe U.S. history; Madeline Will, Ed Week, August 19, 2019
• California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum, Criticized for ‘Anti-Jewish Bias,’ to Be Revised;  Catherine Gewertz, Ed Week Teacher, August 14, 2019
• The Urgent Need for Anti-Racist Education; Christina Torres, Ed Week Teacher, August 14, 2019
• The Urgent Need for Anti-Racist Education; Christina Torres, EdWeek Teacher, August 14, 2019
• Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens; Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report, August 12, 2019
• What’s an emotion scientist? Inside the new concept shaping social-emotional learning; Kate Stringer, LA School Report, August 5, 2019
• Teacher Collaboration May Reduce Class Failures; Sarah D. Sparks, Inside School Research, July 31, 2019
• California ethnic studies curriculum would be a first in U.S. The state wants feedback; Elaine Chen, The Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2019
• SoCal’s Latino kids are going to school with fewer and fewer white kids; Kyle Stokes, LAist, July 31, 2019
• What Every Educator Needs to Know About Artificial Intelligence; Alyson Klein,  Ed Week, July 26, 2019
• Gender gap in STEM fields could be due to girls’ reading skills, not math ability; Stephanie De Marco, LA Times, July 25, 2019
• Personalized learning can be a tool for equity or a barrier to it; Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report, July 25, 2019
• What Every Educator Needs to Know About Artificial Intelligence; Alyson Klein, Digital Education, July 25, 2019
• How Different Racial Groups Think Schools Should Prepare Students for the Future of Work; Alyson Klein, Digital Education, July 24, 2019
• Science gets hands on in summer STEM programs, but funding challenges remain; Sydney Johnson, EdSource, July 23, 2019
• Plan to expose all students to physics missing one element — teachers; Diana Lambert, EdSource, July 23, 2019
• After-school programs still waiting on cannabis tax money; Brooke Staggs, Orange County Register, July 22, 2019
• Educators, Parents Warn Against Bills that Would Limit Charter Schools in California;Ian Henderson, The Epoch Times, July  21, 2019
• Teachers Should Design Student Assessments. But First They Need to Learn How; Brandon Lewis, Ed Week, July 18, 2019
• ‘Summer learning loss’ is a longstanding belief in education. But is it real?; Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, July 16, 2019
• The FCC Just Made It Tougher for Schools to Address the
• ‘Homework Gap’, Ed-Tech Leaders Say, Alyson Klein, Ed Week, July 14, 2019