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Less than 40% of fourth-graders are attending full in-person school, and less than 30% of eighth-graders, new data shows CNN 1 day ago By Elizabeth Stuart, CNN © Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press/USA Today Network Students at Churchill High School in Livonia, Michigan, on Friday, January 22, 2021. The nations school districts are making strides in their efforts to reopen, but new data shows that many more students are still learning fully remotely than fully in-person. Just 39...

Laura Bottomley Dr. Laura Bottomley is the Director of Women in Engineering (WIE), Engineering Education and The Engineering Place for K-20 Outreach (TEP) and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education at NC State University.  Under Bottomley, NC State’s Women in Engineering program is successfully boosting the number of women engineers in academia and industry.  The percentage of women in NC State’s first year engineering program grew from 14% in 2004 to ...

Belgium pauses AstraZeneca vaccine for people 55 and under From CNN’s James Frater People rest after being vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Brabanthal event center in Heverlee, Belgium, on Wednesday, March 17. Francisco Seco/AP/FILE Belgium has paused use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for people aged 18 to 55 years old, national and regional health ministers announced in a statement. They said their decision follows a review by the European Medicine Agenc...

M-STEPs may not count, but your student will still have to take them Educators are waiting on a waiver that may not come in time Standardize tests will still be required by federal law, but schools wont be punished based on the results. Educators wonder why they have to administer the tests. and last updated 2021-04-06 17:02:55-04 WXMI — After the M-STEP assessment was canceled last year in the throes of the pandemic, it may go ahead this year but without much purpose. The Michigan Student...

Michigan schools prep for a testing season like no other Mark Johnson, Lansing State Journal LANSING — In a fitting end to a school year like none other, Michigan students are preparing for the annual M-STEP — but it’s unclear whether theyll actually have to take it.  The window for schools to administer the state’s standardized test for third through eighth graders runs April 12 to May 21. But lawmakers and educators want the Michigan Student Test of Educational...

By Rebecca Weber Saturday, April 3, 2021 4:00 AM It would appear, based on the stories making news these days, that the younger generations among us are hell bent on revolution— but not the kind that gave us the Constitution and a way of life that made America the envy of the world. Rather, it’s more like the Russian revolution that enslaved hundreds of millions of people for nearly seven and a half decades from 1917 to 1990. But it appears that the young anarc...

The  sad little scrap of paper  in the Schoolhouse Rock "Im Just a Bill" educational cartoon has been viewed nearly 9 million times on YouTube. That says nothing of the millions who have seen the cartoon on TV since it debuted in 1976. Were betting that many of you can hum the song and picture the bill and his red, white and blue button in your mind.  On his way to becoming a law, that sad scrap of paper offered a civics lesson that generations of children understood.  With fears of more...

High-poverty Michigan school districts awarded $3M to help improve reading, writing skills Updated Mar 10, 2021; Facebook Share MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – Rané Garcia envisions a future at Muskegon Heights Public School Academy where every teacher is an expert at teaching reading, and literacy is embedded at every level of instruction. Literacy proficiency rates are in the single digits at the predominantly Black school system. Garcia, the charter’s superintendent, is trying to change that. �...

Michigan's state superintendent and president of the state school board make their case to the Education Department.

The state tumbled seven places in four years.