• Report: Adjunct Faculty Living in Poverty

    Trimmel Gomes Public News Service TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – From skipping meals and having their utilities cut off to even delaying medical treatment, a survey of nearly 800 faculty members across Florida shows poverty is common among adjunct faculty at universities and colleges. The survey by the Service Employees International...
  • SCCOE helps pave the way for computer science content standards

    SAN JOSE, CA – December 4-10, the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) will join several Santa Clara County school districts in hosting an hour of code. This week-long event pairs community partners with school sites to bring coding into the classroom. Schools throughout the county are partnering with software...
  • Encourage a Love of Reading During National Family Literacy Month

    NewsUSA For many parents, it’s a struggle to get kids to read outside of the classroom, but November is the perfect time to change that, because it’s National Family Literacy Month. The importance of reading goes well beyond acing a test or getting an “A” on a book report....
  • “Good Jobs” Now Require More Than a High School Diploma

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Almost two-thirds of workers in California don’t have a bachelor’s degree – but only 37 percent of them have a “good job,” according to a new report. Researchers from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce teamed up with JP...
  • Los “Buenos Empleos” ahora exigen más que un Diploma de “High-School”

    Roz Brown California News Service Sacramento, CA – Un nuevo estudio del Centro sobre Educacion y la Fuerza Laboral de la Universidad Georgetown (‘Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce’), en colaboracion con JP Morgan Chase, muestra que los trabajadores sin un titulo de bachillerato todavia pueden conseguir...
  • University of Utah Brings Higher Ed to Prisons

    Eric Galatas Public News Service SALT LAKE CITY — A new program spearheaded by the University of Utah is reviving higher education classes for incarcerated people at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Draper, after a ten-year hiatus. Erin Castro, an assistant professor at the University, is the driving...
  • Giving Props to Support Staff During Education Week

    Eric Tegethoff Public News Service SALEM, Ore. — This week is American Education Week, and more than just teachers are in the spotlight for the support they provide to students. Each day of Education Week has a theme, and today is Education Support Professionals Day. Known as ESPs, they...
  • Policymakers cannot ignore the overrepresentation of black students in special education

    Kristen Harper and Edward Fergus, PhD Child Trends In their recent study featured in Education Week, Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier, and Maczuga got it wrong in arguing that more black children should be identified with educational disabilities and challenging federal policies meant to address overrepresentation by race in special education. To be clear, black...
  • THINK TOGETHER HOLDS LIGHTS ON AFTERSCHOOL RALLY TO CALL ATTENTION TO THE VALUE OF AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS

    San Jose, Calif. – Think Together, a statewide nonprofit organization that partners with schools to provide early learning after school and support programs, recently sponsored a Lights On Afterschool rally on October 26 to join the annual nationwide celebration of afterschool programs organized by the Afterschool Alliance.  During the event students were able to...
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