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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
Major possible revisions to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act were debated in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, even as new federal student-data-privacy legislation proposed by the White House continues to inch forward. (Education Week)
If Indiana was a business, education would be its primary product. Hoosiers spend more than half their tax dollars to pay for education from kindergarten through high school. (Indy Star)
The nation’s high school graduation rate ticked up for the second year in a row, according to new federal data released Thursday showing that 81 percent of the Class of 2013 graduated within four years. (Washington Post)
To break down the isolation that many teachers experience in their classrooms, California schools are using instructional coaches as a key tool to help teachers adapt their instruction to implement the Common Core standards in math and English language arts. (Huffington Post)