What Makes Read-Alouds So Important?
Many new parents receive the advice that they should read aloud to their baby. It’s advice that’s grounded in research, as many studies have linked early shared reading at home…
Government Shutdown Would Hurt Neediest Children
Unless members of Congress act quickly and come to a budget agreement the country will once again face a government shutdown starting October 1. That would mean cuts of 1.4…
School Lunch or Packed Lunch – Which is Better?
With another school year now underway many parents are back at a difficult daily task: packing lunches for their children. Every morning brings a series of questions: What will kids…
Finding a Better Way: New Testing Committee Gets Down to Work
Members of the new Mastery Examination Committee, created by the legislature to examine student assessment, pledged to do what’s best for children at their first meeting today in Hartford. But…
New International Report on Students and Computer Use
What impact does students’ use of computers at home and at school have on their learning? A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looks into…
Autumn-Themed Resources for Your Classroom
It still feels like summer today, but fall does officially begin next week and we’ll soon be encountering a nip in the air and red and yellow on the trees.…
Continued Need for Improvements to Teacher Evaluation
A lot is up in the air for the future of teacher evaluation as members of the U.S. House and Senate hash out new federal education policy this fall. The…
Preventing Suicide: Information and Resources
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 10- to 24-year-olds, and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey found that 16 percent of students in grades…
Back to School Fiscal Check-Up
As the school year has started up you’ve been reviewing your curriculum and figuring out if you have the right instructional game plan in place. So why not do the…
Unions Powerful Force for Improving Lives of Low-Income Children
Fair wages and benefits, workplace rights and protections—unions are important for many reasons, but one only recently discovered benefit of unions is that they increase the likelihood of low-income children…