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Closing the pre-K math education gap for Latino students

By Steven Blackburn

When beginning kindergarten, Latino students are three months behind in math literacy when compared to their white peers, says a 2017 study conducted by Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization that works to improve the lives children and families. The study, “Making Math Count More for Young Latino Children” cites poverty in Latino households as […]

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April 17, 2017

Digital accessibility should be a K12 goal from the start

Editor’s note: CIO Hot Topic is produced in collaboration with CoSN. Districts must provide learning materials that are accessible to all students. Digital accessibility—a challenging undertaking—involves making websites, learning platforms, videos, digital textbooks and portals available to students with physical, visual, speech, auditory, neurological or cognitive disabilities. The consequences of failing to do so can […]

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April 14, 2017

Personalized learning turns struggling schools around

The Syracuse City School District serves more than 20,000 students across 34 schools, most of which have been classified by the New York State Education Department as either “priority” or “focus” schools. These schools have the overall lowest student academic performance on state assessments, persistently low graduation rates, and had shown little improvement. As educators, […]

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April 13, 2017

Schools get technical

By combining the plumbing of the internet with heavy-duty encryption, a VPN can help keep a district’s secrets. Under the surface, VPNs use a technique known as tunneling to create an encrypted data path from sender to receiver and back. The key is that everything from the web address to the actual data is encoded […]

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April 13, 2017

Breaking school language barriers

In southern California’s Brawley Union High School District, students newly arrived from Mexico study math and science using a university-developed curriculum written in Spanish. In the Omaha Public Schools, bilingual picture books created by district staff supplement the education of students who speak the Karen language of Burma. Despite research showing that native-language instruction improves […]

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April 13, 2017

Shields up! Your school's private internet

Schools thrive on free and open exchanges of information, but as soon as a principal reviews attendance records or examines student grades held on a district server, that openness must end. Schools thrive on free and open exchanges of information, but as soon as a principal reviews attendance records or examines student grades held on a […]

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April 12, 2017

Report: Is K12 principal licensure exam a good measure of success?

The assessment that prospective principals must take to obtain an administrative license in 18 states may be a barrier to non-whites and urban educators, says a 2017 study. Researchers focused on the use of the School Leaders Licensure Assessment in Tennessee and found that the exam did not provide an effective performance screen. A team […]

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April 11, 2017

Where to find K12 curriculum in other languages

The challenge of finding curriculum materials in languages other than English is especially complex for districts embracing a growing trend: dual-language immersion programs, in which native English speakers join English language learners in studying academic subjects in two languages. Nine years ago, Utah launched an ambitious effort to enroll thousands of students in dual-language immersion, […]

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Closing the pre-K math education gap for Latino students

New education for free or a fee

School district destination: Deeper learning

Student Success Stories

Digital accessibility should be a K12 goal from the start

Personalized learning turns struggling schools around

Schools get technical

Breaking school language barriers

Shields up! Your school's private internet

Report: Is K12 principal licensure exam a good measure of success?

Where to find K12 curriculum in other languages