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Georgia has said it wants to apply for the Every Student Succeeds Act's Innovative Assessment pilot. Applications aren't technically due until December for the next round of the pilot, but the Peach State has flagged its interest early.
Tracey Smith, principal of Brookwood Elementary School in Georgia, shared with eSchool News her strategies for helping teachers take ownership of their work and helping students take control of their learning by creating a more positive learning culture.
Efforts to improve poor-performing Atlanta schools have led to big changes in classrooms, shifts that are as much about trying to create a new culture as they are about new teachers.
New freshmen at Morehouse College got to know an unusual neighbor during orientation: David A. Thomas, president of the historically black men’s institution in Atlanta. For two nights, he slept in Room 116 of Graves Hall, a dormitory.
Spelman College and the Ford Motor Company Fund on Tuesday announced a partnership to help more of the college’s first-generation students complete school.
A work group of state school board members and education advocates in Ohio has recommended ditching traditional A-F letter grades on report cards for schools and replacing them with more descriptive terms, such as "meets standards," reported the Journal-News.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will visit Toledo on Monday to observe how Penta Career Center — a public vocational high school and adult education center — partners with local organizations to educate students of all ages.
Social and emotional learning sound warm and fuzzy, perhaps even new-age. But far from it, advocates say: Social and emotional learning, when combined with traditional academic education, prepares the whole child for life separate from school.