Featured Articles
Weekly NewsBrief 11/1/21 - 11/7/21
State education department hoping to change the way schools are funded - By Jordon Brown, WATE Through a series of town halls , the Tennessee Department of Education is looking for ...
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Weekly NewsBrief 10/11/21 - 10/17/21
Test score gaps between America’s high and low achievers widened pre-pandemic. No one’s sure why – By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat Test scores of American students are stagnant or sliding,...
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Weekly NewsBrief 10/4/21 - 10/10/21
Flush with COVID-19 aid, schools steer funding to sports – By Collin Binkley and Ryan J. Foley, The Associated Press One Wisconsin school district built a new football field. In Iowa, a ...
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Weekly NewsBrief 9/27/21/10/3/21
3 goals leaders set for ESSER funds to keep schools open in 3rd COVID year – By Charles Hendrix, District Administrator Legislators and stakeholders discussed how to use policies imple...
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Weekly NewsBrief 9/13/21 - 9/19/21
School districts hesitate to use ARP funding for construction projects – By Sebastian Obando, K-12 Dive A survey by the School Superintendents Association (AASA) reveals that schoo...
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Weekly NewsBrief 9/6/21 - 9/12/21
Influx of school devices provides crucial opportunities for data privacy lessons – By Shawna De La Rosa, K-12 Dive With the exponential increase in school-issued devices due to the C...
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Weekly NewsBrief 8/30/21 - 9/5/21
Schools Are Getting Billions In COVID Relief Money. Here's How They Plan To Spend I t – By Cory Turner, NPR New staff, new tech and even new classrooms — that's just some of what sc...
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Weekly NewsBrief 8/9/21 - 8/15/21
Cook County announces Project Rainbow to address pandemic learning losses – By Nichole Shaw, Chicago Sun Times Cook County has created an education program aimed at helping fill a thre...
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Weekly NewsBrief 7/26/21 - 8/1/21
Alabama Department of Education launches campaign to recruit next generation of teacher – From the Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama State Department of Education has launched t...
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Weekly NewsBrief 6/19/21 - 6/25/21
NPC 2021: How SEL can help raise high school reading achievement – By Kara Arundel, K-12 Dive School principals can support student literacy development in middle and high schools by...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 10/17/22 - 10/23/22
The $1.1 Billion Math Solution? Gates Foundation Makes Math Its Top K-12 Priority – By Marianna McMurdock, The 74 As the nation witnesses unprecedented declines in academic achieveme...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 10/10/22 - 10/16/22
Recent cyberattacks highlight the vulnerability of California schools – By Joe Hong, Cal Matters If Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school district, can be hit with a ransom...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 10/3/22 - 10/9/22
Lawmakers, school officials meet over facial recognition technology in schools – By Kathleen Shannon, Montana Public Radio State lawmakers studying facial recognition technology expres...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 9/12/22 - 9/18/22
Shorter work weeks become the incentive as districts struggle to hire new teachers – By Micah Ward, District Administration Since the onset of COVID, district leaders have been force...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 9/5/22 - 9/11/22
Facing Pandemic Learning Crisis, District Spend Relief Funds at a a Snail’s Pace – By Linda Jacobson, The 74 Schools that closed their doors the longest due to COVID have spent just ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/22/22 - 8/28/22
Minnesota Department of Education identifies hundreds of schools in need of additional support – By Eder Campuzano and MaryJo Webster, the Star Tribune The Minnesota Department of Educ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/15/22 - 8/21/22
Learning spaces, wellness rooms, nature trails. This is the K-12 school of the future – By Jennifer Kingston, Axios The hallway-and-classroom model of school architecture is out. Inste...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 8/8/22 - -8/14/22
Strategies Revealed for Effective Delivery of K-12 Online Education – By Laura Oleniacz, NC State University News North Carolina State University researchers released findings from an ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/25/22 - 7/31/22
Most mask mandates ended last school year. Now they are slowly returning – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Much of the general public has ditched masks but students in some ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/18/22 - 7/24/22
While superintendents are lukewarm, tougher rules may be coming in how high schools are graded – By Will Sentell, The Baton Rogue Advocate State education leaders are mapping plans t...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 7/4/22 - 7/10/22
Kansas may ditch class hours for real-world training as graduation requirements – By Suzanne Perez, The Wichita Eagle For more than a century, Kansas students have earned credits — and...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/27/22 - 7/3/22
NYC rolling out 2 virtual learning programs with aim to turn them into fully remote schools by 2023 – By Cayla Bamberger, NY Post Remote learning could be here to stay. New York Ci...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/20/22 - 6/26/22
Money for Children’s Education, Not Schools – By Jess Yass, Wall Street Journal As schools break for summer, it’s a good time to review the return America is getting on its investment ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 6/6/22 - 6/12/22
NYC Education Dept. bans widely-used online gradebook after security breach – By Michael Elsen-Rooney, N.Y. Daily News The New York City Education Department is barring city public sch...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/23/22 - 5/29/22
Chicago Public Schools data breach affects nearly 500K students – By Anna Merod, K-12 Dive Nonprofit ed tech provider Battelle for Kids informed Chicago Public Schools on May 11 it was...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/16/22 - 5/22/22
Other forces are working against K-12 leaders who are scrambling to hire – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administration Layoffs, permanent school closures and steep enrollment declines a...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/9/22 - 5/15/22
Education Department Announces 161 Students to be Honored as 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars – From US Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 5/2/22 - 5/8/22
Early childhood education gets $150 million investment from state – By Catherine Shen, Connecticut Public Radio A $150 million injection into the state’s early childhood system would p...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 4/24/22 - 5/1/22
Teachers are receiving big raises in many districts. Can you keep up? – By Matt Zalaznick, District Administrator A message to K-12 leaders who are worried about sharing a shrinking ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 4/18/22 - 4/24/22
Where is North Carolina losing teachers? – By Alex Granados and Dean Drescher, EdNC.org The State of the Teaching Profession report presented to the State Board of Education in Mar...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 4/4/22 - 4/10/22
With millions in federal dollars, Oregon schools plan to address unfinished learning – By Elizabeth Miller, Oregon Public Broadcasting It’s been one year since President Joe Biden sign...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 3/21/22 - 3/27/22
Lawmakers pass largest teacher pay raise in Mississippi history – By Geoff Pendor, Mississippi Today The state House on Tuesday passed the largest teacher pay raise in state history — ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 3/14/22 - 3/20/22
Federal funds to help thousands of Georgia’s homeless students – By Cassidy Alexander, Atlanta Journal Constitution Georgia school districts are getting an infusion of cash to help stu...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 2/28/22 - 3/6/22
Bill would allow for-profit training for Alabama teachers, cut certificate time – By Tricia Powell Crain, AL.com Alabama lawmakers are considering new ways to make it easier to become ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 2/14/22 - 2/20/22
District outreach critical as 10M households benefit from Affordable Connectivity Program – By Anna Merod, K-12 Dive The $14.2 billion Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the ...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 2/7/22 - 2/13/22
2 Mississippi teachers get national recognition – By The Associated Press Two Mississippi teachers have earned national recognition as recipients of the 2020 Presidential Awards for ...
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Weekly NewsBrief 1/31/22 - 2/6/22
All K-12 schools plan to spend emergency relief funds on this item in 2022 – By Chris Burt, District Administration How are local districts planning to spend their critical Elementar...
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Weekly NewsBriefs 1/3/22 - 1/9/22
Georgia Pre-K teachers to get two more $1,000 bonuses – By AP News State-funded prekindergarten and child care teachers in Georgia will get two more rounds of $1,000 bonuses paid from ...
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National Report Reveals Pandemic Has Had Profound Effect On K–12 Student Outcomes
How Kids Are Performing analysis shows lower student performance this school year compared to last year, but there are encouraging signs that growth is improving
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Schools in All 50 States and Two U.S. Territories Offer Students Access to Quality Online Courses from VHS Learning
With the addition of 44 new school partners in 2021, VHS Learning reaches new milestone
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Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Hybrid Logistics Security
