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In the Age of Trump, Civics Courses Make a Comeback

Posted on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alina Tugend, New York Times
Date: 6/5/2018
Link: Complete Article

MAMARONECK, N.Y. — It’s just after 7 on a Thursday morning and Mamaroneck High School is empty — except for about 30 freshmen who are already seated in their classroom, laptops in front of them. They are finishing the first year of a new initiative: a four-year program called Original Civic Research and Action, which… [Read More]

Treating Childhood Trauma

Posted on Monday, March 12th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Oprah Winfrey, 60 Minutes
Date: 3/11/2018
Link: Complete Article

In 1850, a Catholic orphanage called St. Aemilian was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take in children whose parents had died in a cholera epidemic. 168 Years later, that same organization — now known as “SaintA” —  is still finding shelter for thousands of children who need it, often kids who have deep trauma in… [Read More]

Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says

Posted on Monday, January 15th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Maria Danilova, AP, PBS
Date: 1/11/2018
Link: Complete Article

WASHINGTON — Too often, low-income, black and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission said inequities are caused by the fact that schools are most funded with state and local tax dollars. More… [Read More]

It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Apps Your Children Are Using?

Posted on Friday, September 15th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Hayley Krischer, New York Times
Date: 9/6/2017
Link: Complete Article

Alexander Graham Bell didn’t expect his telephone to be widely used for prank calls. And Steve Jobs was chary of children using his iThings. But social media apps are appendages for tweens and teens. It’s one way they earn social currency. Below, a guide to what parents will (or should) be anxiously monitoring during this… [Read More]

Senate panel rejects Trump’s proposed federal education cuts

Posted on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Joe Heim, Date: 9/7/2017
Link: Complete Article

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a spending bill that rejects President Trump’s proposed cuts to education funding for fiscal year 2018 and, for now at least, derails the administration’s goal of directing federal dollars toward promoting and expanding school choice and private school vouchers. The 29 to 2 vote on the… [Read More]

It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks

Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dan Goldstein, NY Times
Date: 5/21/2017
Link: Complete Article

A high school yearbook is a keepsake. Like an Instagram filter, it’s meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia. As an object, it evokes affection and community; you hope to show it to your children and grandchildren someday. A yearbook isn’t supposed to be divisive. So how to commemorate a… [Read More]

Chocolate milk is heading back to school

Posted on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Lindsay Wise, McClatchy Washington Bureau, The Recorder
Date: 5/1/2017
Link: Complete Article

WASHINGTON — Chocolate milk is coming back on the school lunch menu. So are white bread and saltier food. Several paragraphs tucked into a massive 1,665-page government spending bill released Monday would relax Obama-era nutrition standards for school lunches. On page 101 of the bill, due for congressional votes later this week, the secretary of… [Read More]

Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered

Posted on Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Susan Dynarski, New York Times
Date: 4/8/2017
Link: Complete Article

Public schools are increasingly filled with black and Hispanic students, but the children identified as “gifted” in those schools are overwhelmingly white and Asian. The numbers are startling. Black third graders are half as likely as whites to be included in programs for the gifted, and the deficit is nearly as large for Hispanics, according… [Read More]

Unanimous Supreme Court Expands Scope of Special Education Rights

Posted on Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Mark Walsh, Education Week
Date: 3/22/2017
Link: Complete Article

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a major decision expanding the scope of students’ special education rights, ruling unanimously that schools must do more than provide a “merely more than de minimis” education program to a student with a disability. In Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, the high court rejected the “merely… [Read More]

Obama Education Rules Are Swept Aside by Congress

Posted on Monday, March 13th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dana Goldstein, New York Times
Date: March 9, 2017
Link: Complete Article

With all the attention paid to President Trump’s lightning-rod secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, and her advocacy for private school vouchers, little public notice has been paid to the action on education in Congress — where lawmakers have broader power than Ms. DeVos to make changes to the nation’s school system. Now, Congress has done… [Read More]