CER Daily Media Clips

Your Daily News Clips for October, 26 2021

CER Daily Media Clips for October 26, 2021

The Key To Transforming Education Is To Stop Making Students Conform

Oct 26, 2021 |Forbes | innovation | National

There are varying definitions of what it means for education to be transformed. The best education providers - schools, technologists, or even non-traditional groups - believe that new approaches, technologies and ways of learning that bring education into the 21st century are a critical link to taking students from bottom quartiles in almost every subject to where they are thriving.

College Enrollment On Track for Largest Two-Year Drop on Record

Oct 26, 2021 |US News & World Report | higher education | National

Higher education enrollment rates dropped for the second straight year, defying predictions of a post-lockdown bounceback and hitting a record low for a two-year span.

Biden boasts he’s used word ‘union’ more than past 7 presidents ‘combined’

Oct 26, 2021 |Fox News | elected officials | National

President Biden boasted that he’s used the word “union” more than the past seven U.S. presidents “combined” during a speech in New Jersey on Monday.

Child Services Called on Parents Who Kept Unvaccinated Kids Home From School

Oct 26, 2021 |Newsweek | other education issues | States, South, District of Columbia

A family in Washington, D.C., was reported to child services by the city's public school system for “educational neglect” after they chose to keep their unvaccinated children home from school over COVID-19 safety concerns.

How New Schools for Baton Rouge is expanding public school choice

Oct 26, 2021 |Business Report | charter schools | Towns, States, South, Louisiana

Elementary school-age children walk in quiet formation down cheerful hallways trimmed in bright Kelly green. Some are headed to French, Spanish or Mandarin classes, while others are making a beeline for biology, English language arts or even Latin.

CTU blasts CPS COVID safety plan over failure to test unvaccinated students

Oct 26, 2021 |WGN9 | teachers unions | Towns, States, Midwest, Illinois

The Chicago Teachers’ Union says Chicago Public Schools administrators are failing to provide the promised weekly Covid testing of unvaccinated students.

Tensions flare as teachers make counter offer

Oct 26, 2021 |Gloucester Daily Times | teachers unions | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

In the middle of a strained and highly emotional bargaining session last Monday, the Gloucester Teachers’ Association came to the table with another counter offer for the School Committee.

A Faith-Based After-School Program for Underprivileged Kids Gets Impressive Results

Oct 26, 2021 |Jersey City Times | accountability | Towns, States, Northeast, New Jersey

The organization offers tutoring and music lessons to 100 first- through eighth-graders combined at 240 Fairmount Ave. and P.S. 22 — with a third site in Greenville on the way. (Carter explained that the religious group can operate in the public schools because it does so after hours when attendance is optional.)

Can you teach reading on Zoom?

Oct 26, 2021 |Ed Source | online learning | Towns, States, West, California

When the coronavirus struck, upending education as we know it, she pivoted to Zoom tutorials led by the nonprofit she founded called Ignite! Reading, which is part of an emerging trend of high-tech literacy projects coming out of the pandemic.

Atlantic Charter School in Fall River holds Thumbs Up Thursday, Book Character Parade

Oct 26, 2021 |Fall River Reporter | charter schools | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

Events such as these are meant to build trusting relationships between students and the Fall River PD by promoting positive interactions within the Atlantis community.

Column: Mayoral candidates keep missing the assignment when talking about Boston public schools

Oct 26, 2021 |Boston Globe | elections | Towns, States, Northeast, Massachusetts

The lack of nuanced and meaningful debate from the two Boston mayoral hopefuls about the profound issues facing the Boston Public Schools has been one of the most disappointing aspects of this historic race.

Dozens to rally in support of the Excellent Education for All Act

Oct 26, 2021 |FOX 43 | school choice | States, Northeast, Pennsylvania

Dozens of supporters will rally today in Harrisburg in support of The Excellent Education for All Act to highlight how the bill would create scholarships based on educational opportunity accounts for vulnerable students.

Michigan’s Legislature Passed a School Choice Initiative, but Supporters Fear Governor’s

Oct 26, 2021 |Capitol Hill Times | school choice | States, Midwest, Michigan

Rather than absorb some of that excess funding into the already-bloated public school apparatus—where, experience shows, there is no guarantee it will be of any help to students—Michigan should take a chance on a radical concept: ceding some of the decision-making power over children to parents.

Charter Schools in Arizona Employ Flexibility and Innovation to See Record Enrollment.

Oct 26, 2021 |University Herald | charter schools | States, West, Arizona

This fall marks 27 years since the first public charter schools opened in the Grand Canyon state and, despite the uncertainty brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic over the last 18 months, charter schools in Arizona are clearly moving from strength to strength.

Local school districts set aside ‘mental health’ days for students, teachers

Oct 26, 2021 |WRAL | school districts | States, South, North Carolina

Several school districts in central North Carolina are setting aside time for students and teachers to take a “mental health” break.

Covid relief money to fund new teacher program

Oct 26, 2021 |Arizona Capitol Times | federal budget | States, West, Arizona

A graduate residency program is the latest effort to chip away at state's teacher shortage and combat high turnover.

Christian schools note growing enrollment as parents seek alternatives to public schools

Oct 26, 2021 |Colorado Springs Gazette | private schools | Towns, States, West, Colorado

Like many private religious schools, Colorado Springs Christian Schools stayed open after mandatory closures lifted last spring, while still following public health practices, such as installing air filtration systems and stepping up cleaning.

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