Evie Blad

Education reporter at @EducationWeek. Send me story ideas about K-12 schools and students. Dog person. Kansan. My high school mascot was farm equipment.

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What Makes Schools Safe? Researchers Outline These 4 Key Recommendations

1 week ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

To keep schools safe, educators must resist the push for cure-all solutions in favor of more comprehensive strategies that incorporate student behavior, school climate, and the thoughtful use of security measures. That’s the conclusion of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder who synthesized about 150 federally funded research studies conducted after the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
What Makes Schools Safe? Researchers Outline These 4 Key Recommendations

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Evie Blad

A Neuroscientist Explains All the Good Things That Happen in Your Brain When You Forgive SomeoneHolding onto your anger is hijacking your work performance. Forgiveness gives you back your power. “To err is human; to forgive, divine,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote in the 1700s. These days a boatload of modern science suggests he was on to something. Research from Harvard Health has found links …
Trump Allies Say the Case for Head Start Is Weak. Researchers Say They're Wrong

1 week ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

As the Trump administration weighs wiping out funding for Head Start, one question looms large in debates over the program’s future: Does it work? A draft of President Donald Trump’s pending budget proposal would eliminate the $12 billion, 60-year-old early childhood program altogether. His administration has already closed 10 regional offices, leaving providers in 22 states without a designated federal contact to handle questions about funding and program regulations.
Banish 'Equity Ideology' in Discipline

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Brooke Schultz |Evie Blad

President Donald Trump is once again changing course on federal attempts to chip away at racial disparities in student discipline, issuing an executive order this week that calls on the education secretary to develop guidance for schools instructing them not to consider race at all when dealing with student behavior. Trump’s latest action continues to take aim at diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
How Medicaid Spending Cuts Could Harm Schools

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

It’s difficult for Superintendent Whitney Oakley to explain all of the ways Medicaid has helped her school district. Like districts around the country, the Guilford County, N.C., school system bills Medicaid for an array of special education services, helping to fill the gap of inadequate federal funding to cover obligations for students with disabilities.
What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common Answers

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Evie Blad

The world's greatest mentalist reveals 5-second trick to never forget someone's nameIt's fun, weird, and will make people like you way more. The longer I'm alive, it seems the more people's names that I have to remember. With two kids …
A Strengths-Based Guide to Assessing Student Progress (DOWNLOADABLE)

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Evie Blad

4 hours agoNo evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office foundAn internal memo, prepared days before Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE agents, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas. Days before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State …NowWhat Are Grades Really For?
A Strengths-Based Guide to Assessing Student Progress (DOWNLOADABLE)

1 month ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad |Francis Sheehan

Teachers use rubrics to ensure consistency and clarity in grading student assignments by carefully detailing what a successful project looks like. But the seeming simplicity of these assessment tools masks complicated questions about how to measure student progress and how to encourage continued learning, said Kevin Perks, the senior director of Quality Schools and Districts at WestEd, a nonpartisan education research organization.
What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common Answers

1 month ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

When Laura Link works with districts to review their grading policies, she starts by asking a simple question: What are grades for? Are grades meant to motivate students? To help teachers determine who needs more support? To inform parents of their children’s progress? Link, an associate professor of education at the University of North Dakota, studies how K-12 schools formulate grades and how those decisions affect student learning.
Why JD Vance’s Changing Rhetoric on Tariffs Matters for Schools

1 month ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

Ensuring that the skills of America’s workers match the needs of its employers is an urgent task, and one that K-12 schools have increasingly embraced. They’re investing in new post-high school pathways that include career exploration, on-the-job internships, and industry partnerships. Now, that focus is part of heated debates erupting among politicians and economists over international trade. The subtext? The need for well-paying jobs that don’t require a four-year college degree.