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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
Immigrant children living in the U.S. without legal status have been blocked from registering for school and accessing the educational services they need, according to a report on school districts in four states by Georgetown University Law Center researchers. (Associated Press)
Of the 3 million students identified as gifted in the U.S., English Language Learners are by far the most under represented. And nobody knows that better than 17-year-old Alejandra Galindo. (NPR)
Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot—or as under-researched—as “Maker” education. The term generally refers to using a wide variety of hands-on activities (such as building, computer programming, and sewing) to support academic learning and the development of a mindset that values playfulness and experimentation, growth and iteration, and collaboration and community. (Education Week)
With the field of Republican presidential candidates narrowed from a high of 17 last year to three this month, only one remains who has both an extensive K-12 track record and a record that reflects many state policy prescriptions popular among GOP leaders in recent years: Ohio Gov. John Kasich. (Education Week)
The teacher shortage in poor, rural districts in South Carolina is so bad, the state is considering offering would-be instructors a way to graduate from college debt free. (Associated Press)
MarylandCAN in the News
At Cecil Elementary School in Baltimore, where bone-dry water fountains stand next to brimming water coolers, several third-graders who’ve never drunk from the fountains puzzled over why they didn’t work. (Capital Gazette)