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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
A few years ago, if a student arrived at an Ascend elementary school wearing the wrong color socks, she was sent to the dean’s office to stay until a family member brought a new pair. Now, the school office is stocked with extra socks. Students without them can pick up a spare pair before heading to class. (The Atlantic)
Few public high schools in the country have attracted as much shine as Pathways in Technology Early College High School — P-TECH — in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A large classroom at the school is hung with blown-up color posters of President Obama, smiling with students on a visit to the school in 2013. (NPR)
Add Ohio to your growing list of states griping about online exams. A school district employee told the Cleveland Plain Dealer this week that, according to his research, students who got A’s on paper exams in 2014-15 school year received F grades on last year’s exam. (Education Week)
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is an avid proponent of school choice, but his home state’s notoriously problematic charter school sector is often held up as an example of what can go wrong. In the last year, he successfully pushed for revisions to Ohio’s charter school oversight, but the sector remains embroiled in scandal. (Politico)