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This is your house, Pamela Clark, and this is education in the news. Lots of news stories to share with you, so let's get right into it. This first bit of news I have for you is from Smart Brief on EdTech and US News and World Report featured this story as well. Schools versus TikTok, how they can take on challenge trends.
Schools and school districts nationwide are taking steps to address TikTok challenges that encourage harm to school property and false police calls, among other things. Actions include beefing up education about social media use and even blocking TikTok and other platforms. Don't let them fool you. It's all about TikTok.
They don't list any other platforms there, and there's been consistent problems on Facebook and many other social media sites as well. Education Week reports that Biden announces a federal STEM with 2Ms initiative. President Joe Biden announced a new initiative during Monday's summit on STEMM, Equity and Excellence with the additional M and STEM standing for medical films. The initiative will focus on five action terms, our items, including addressing teacher shortages and STEM with 2Ms and closing STEM funding gaps.
Smart Brief on Education reports that Jewish school and England adopt digital house system. Prataskei, primary school and Leeds, England uses critter coin to manage its digital house system. A similar model to the houses in the Harry Potter series writes, Sagi Yech Ezekiel, Deputy Head Teacher. Under the system, students at the Jewish school can earn points for good behavior, helping others and displaying other core values, and families receive a coin that they can award children for reading at home.
The Public News Service reports that Minnesota could revisit push for universal school mills, a proposal to adopt universal school mills in Minnesota is being considered thanks to the state's large budget surplus. Quote, there are kids in rural areas who go hungry, said Colleen Mora-Arty, maybe? Executive Director of Local Nonprofit Hunger Solutions, Minnesota. Quote, there are kids in suburban areas that go hungry.
It's not just one part of the state. The Washington Post reports that schools adopt telemed to help treat mental health issues. Use of telehealth is going among, or grabbing among public schools to help treat a rising number of mental health challenges among students, particularly those in rural areas. Federal data indicates that 17% of public schools offer telehealth services during the spring.
Excuse me. The conversation reports that, or how needlepoint music could help love lace code. Eight of love lace considered the first person to write computer code relied upon a variety of seemingly unrelated skills in her work, including needlework and music rights. Karina Sloames, an associate professor of history at Rockchester Institute of Technology.
And this article Sloames writes about how craft patterns rely on repetition, which love lace replicated in her code as loops and conditional testing, and notes how her musical training also helped her work. Middle level and smart brief reports along with Pittsburgh Post Gazette, that Pennsylvania middle schoolers curate a World War II museum exhibit. Students from a Pittsburgh middle school curated and assembled a World War II exhibit at the Holocaust Museum of Houston, using family items donated by eighth grade teacher Scott Venzel and his colleagues. The museum trained some of the students as the docents or docents so they could take other students and teachers on tours of the exhibit.
Patch reports that New York middle schoolers create debate legislation. Students from a middle school in New York state, who were part of a speech in debate club, recently participated in the New York Youth and Government Conference, for the event students created and debated legislation. Bear with me as I bring up the next news story. ASCD on smart brief.
And education week say that students self-portraits among White House decorations. Self-portraits of more than 400 students, and some teachers are included among the decorations for the White House's 77 Christmas trees. State teachers of the year were asked to arrange the artwork from students who were invited to depict themselves however they wanted, with some choosing to include their pets or others highlighting their future career, such as an astronaut. WXXI TV in Rochester, New York reports that there's an analysis on racial ethnic disparities in New York's schools.
30% of students in New York state are Latin X, but only 8% of teachers identify as such. According to an analysis released Monday from the Education Trust Network, the report cites the benefits of having more teachers of color in the classroom. The Washington Post says that schools adopt telemed, oh we read that one, sorry, lots of repeats, just a moment. Okay, this is from the Department of Education here in Ohio, State and Local Education News.
Governor Mike DeWine, Administration on VEL's new training standards for educators to carry guns at school. Cleveland.com also covered the story, just FYI. It says Ohio's new training standards for educators to carry concealed firearms at school, include instruction and de-escalation techniques. Neutralization of potential active shooters and trauma and first aid care, among other things.
Governor Mike DeWine's office announced Monday. The standards were developed by the Ohio School Safety Center, part of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, after DeWine signed House Bill 99 last summer. The law dramatically lowers the number of training hours needed for K-12 school personnel in Ohio to carry firearms on the job, from more than 700 hours to 24 hours. The HB 99 also requires at least eight hours of continuing training each year.
Since the United Enquirer says there are four pandemic changes to education that are here to stay. School districts across the country took advantage of the pandemic relief funds by creating summer learning programs, installing new air ventilation systems and investing in mental health support for students of all ages. Some of those investments will stick around after the relief dollars run out, while other additions will be tougher to maintain, like it or not education is changing, but which pandemic's birth changes will last. The new EACRAN requires spoke with Geno for NEREO, Executive Director of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Activities, for the Ohio Department of Education to find out what systematic changes spurred by the pandemic are likely to stay in schools.
The EACRAN Beacon Journal says that the EACRAN Board approves 1.7 million purchase of metal detectors, X-ray machines for schools. EACRAN public schools are spending more than 1.7 million to buy metal detectors and airport-like X-ray machines that will be used each school day and at school events at all of the districts high and middle schools. The District School Board on Monday also approved buying new security cameras to replace aging ones as well as alarms for side doors and school buildings. The security upgrades, which have been in the works for some time, come after a seventh grader at the district of Litchfield Middle School, was found with a gun last week.
Students told administrators that they're concerned that the student possibly had a weapon. Will it be news herald? Perry's schools welcomes education officials for tour highlighting personalized learning opportunities. Perry's schools is bolstering its reputation statewide at a district that places great emphasis on personalized learning opportunities for students.
The District recently invited education officials from other parts of the state to attend a tour of Perry's schools that highlighted a variety of personalized learning programs. Guests on the tour, which took place November 30, included employees from the Ohio Department of Education and Knowledge Works based in Cincinnati. Knowledge Works provides resources to help learning communities transition to personalized learning. The Toledo Blade, Mommy School's name is Lee as Superintendent.
Mommy School's in term Superintendent Steve Lee was named to the position on a permanent basis Monday during an animus vote by the school board. Quote, On behalf of the Mommy City Schools Board of Education, I'm very pleased to announce to our staff students in the entire Mommy community that Steve Lee will remain in the role of Superintendent and continue to work directly with us to move the school district forward. Board President Mike Wiley said in a statement. This past summer, Mr.
Lee had been chosen as an interim successor to Superintendent Todd Kramer who departed for a job at Bowling State University, Bowling Green State University. At the time, Mr. Lee was serving as an assistant Mommy Superintendent. Columbus WOSU NPR reports that Hilltop Early Learning Center Construction is complete and that the facility will open in June.
It will house a 50,000 square foot facility and it costs $20 million. Akron Beacon Journal says long time or nor Donia High School Science teacher remembered as innovative. John O'Brien, a long time science teacher at Nordonia High School, Superintendent Joe Clark says O'Brien 68, who had been with the high school for nearly 25 years, died November 26 after an eight year battle with lung cancer. Quote, We are saddened by the loss to our school community and sent a heartful condolences to his wife Ellen and the entire O'Brien family, Clark said.
Quote, Even while undergoing multiple treatments of cancer, Mr. O'Brien showed up for Nordonia students every day, teaching with his passion for almost 25 years. He was also a Peaker, a cyclist, a gourmet chef, an accomplished woodworker, mechanical engineer, father, husband and cherished friend. His life experiences and stories often made their way into the classroom and many of his students valued his grounded perspective and kind heart.
Cleveland.com reports that Solon School Board approves a funding for 2.3 million in capital projects. The Solon Board of Education has approved it awards for capital projects at four school buildings totaling about $2.3 million for the 2023-2024 school year. On Monday, December 12 before the board voted, Superintendent Fred Bolden said the district wanted to get these bids approved early because lead times on HVAC equipment can be very long. If we want these things to be done by the by the ending of the 2023-2024 school year, we need to start earlier Bolden said.
We're going to take a quick commercial break and we're going to be right back. Stay tuned. Welcome back to Education in the News and the new high-child education. Sergio Brin has donated $1.1 billion for Parkinson's to see his research.
The co-founder of Google has become the largest individual donor and support of Parkinson's research, making him one of just a few people to have donated more than $1 billion in support of research on a specific disease. Annabeling Christian University receives $29 billion for an endowment. The request from the late Bill and Janie Dukes will be used to establish an endowment named after the couple to finance students' scholarships. Prepare students to attend excellent graduate programs and establish several endowed faculty positions in finance.
There with me as I bring up the next news story. Sorry. This story was covered by the Heckinger report says New Jersey could be the first to require media literacy in K-12. A bill adopted by the New Jersey legislature and headed to Governor Phil Murphy's desk for a signature would integrate lessons on how to identify misinformation across all K-12 grades and subjects.
The legislation believed to be the first of its kind adopted in the U.S. would have school librarians and media specialists as well as teachers teach media literacy. So who's policing this? Who's saying what is considered misinformation?
Is it by political standpoint or what? What are your thoughts about this story? Do you think it's a good idea, a bad idea or what do you think the dangers of it is? Tech and learning reports how to use snopes and classroom lessons.
Snopes and, I'm sorry, S-N-O-P-E-S is a fact checking website can be useful teaching tool to help students engage in fact checking and distinguish fact from fiction online. This article identifies several ways to use free resources and lessons including issue and tell. Exercise where students share a story and what information has been debunked. Education week asks the question should K-12 public schools teach December holidays?
There's no clear consensus about how or whether to celebrate or teach the December holiday season. K-12 public schools, some point out that the holidays can be isolating for some students and Francisco Negroan, Chief Legal Officer for the National School Board Association suggest that before celebrating a holiday that teachers ask themselves about their intent. The 74 reports that Kentucky is an outlier on illness related school closures. About 385 schools across 44 districts across Kentucky have closed for in-person learning for at least one day before or because of illness.
According to an audit from school data, service Burbio, Kentucky closed a school about three times as often as the rest of the U.S. combined. According to the data, but officials say the reasons remain a mystery. Fox Business News reports that lawsuit claims that Fortnite Game is addictive for youth.
Parents in Quebec, Canada have sued Fortnite's manufacture Epic Games saying their children are addicted to the video game. While the court found there was enough evidence to consider the matter, a judge ruled there was not evidence that the manufacturer made the game addictive on purpose. WIPER FM in Baltimore, Maryland says that Baltimore students practice with STEM kits. Students with disabilities at Claremont School in Baltimore practice the basics of computer coding used color tiles and a robotic car purchased with funds received from Co.org.
Principal Theodosia Edwards said the lessons teach students bioblastemic communication skills. Sorry quite a few repeats again. This is from Wish TV and Indianapolis. Indiana provides update on school performance dashboard.
At its last board meeting of the year, the Indiana State Board of Education provided an update on the upcoming release of its school performance dashboard. Indiana graduates prepared to succeed. The dashboard will provide information on the state school districts and areas including attendance. Three or third grade literacy and graduation pathway completion plus the board is reviewing feedback and plans to release a list of future enhancements.
Sorry about that. Talk Beat in New York says that a program prepares future teacher struggling readers. A reading tutor program of the city University of New York is pairing students who are enrolled in teaching training with some of the about 50% of New York public school students who are unable to read at level by third grade. Started in the fall of 2020, the SUNY Reading Corps is the idea of Katie Pace Miles, a literacy expert and associate professor at SUNY Brooklyn College, who says she wanted to support struggling readers while also giving future teachers the opportunity to work directly with students.
The New York Times reports that JROTC program mandatory in dozens of schools. Enrollment in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps funded by the US military is intended to be an elective. The data collected by the New York Times finds that dozens of schools have made the program mandatory. That also shows that in some schools more than 75% of students in a single grade have been funneled into the class.
WTXF, TV and Philadelphia, school buses use AI to identify unsafe drivers. Several school districts of Pennsylvania are tapping artificial intelligence to identify drivers who do not stop for school buses. The technology uses school bus cameras to scan license plates of vehicles that illegally pass a school bus and taps AI to identify drivers and send them a $300 ticket. Wow, what do you think of that?
That's an interesting idea. What are your thoughts? Do you think it's a good idea? Do you think it's a bad idea?
Is it scary for you? What do you think? I'd like to know. Okay, philanthropy news digest says that Ford commits $10 million for small business loans in Appalachia.
The investment in the Appalachian community capital is expected to attract additional commitments from the private sector for small business loans to spurred job creation and economic growth and the financially underserved 13 state Appalachian region. Dartmouth alumnus donates $25 million for STEM X program. The $100 million program is designed to increase access and leadership opportunities for historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and prepare the next generation of leaders in the state. The next generation of leaders in these fields.
Then seven organizations partnership to support education in Central America. The initiative will address the needs of young people in Central America with limited access to quality education in the most COVID area for era and funded cohort of 12 civil society organizations in Guatemala and the Honduras community. The United States has a lot of work to ensure all children and young people can exercise their right to education. And John Hopkins receives $100 million for SAIS Europe balonia campus.
The gift from alumni James and Marag Anderson will support the university's efforts to expand the school of advanced international studies campus in the future. I want to take the time to remind everybody now that New Heights has an ongoing fundraiser, go to NewHitesEducation.org to figure out how you can donate or help us, including volunteering. So, again, NewHitesEducation.org and you can also find all of our past shows on radio.NewHitesEducation.org. Pew Center for the Arts Awards more than 1 million to BIPOC artists.
Through the Philadelphia Cultural Treasor's Funding Initiative, 12 Philadelphia area artists will receive unrestricted grants from 75,000 to 65 million. From 75,000 to 120,000 in support of their work in music, performance, film, visual arts, literature, and multi-disciplinary and community based art forms. White House launches partnership to address needs of Native Americans. The Office of Strategic Partnerships will leverage collaborations between the federal government, philanthropy and tribal communities.
Well, I'm sure they're happy to hear that. What do you think? Hmm, bear with me a moment. Our time is almost up.
I kind of see, I think I thought there was something else I wanted to share with you today. But I'm not finding it. Got a little bit more from philanthropy news digest, I guess I could share. It says, Hyper and Outrate Among Immigrant Rights Movement Staff.
Do you have remedy of the situation, the California Community Foundation and the Wine Guard Foundation? Or launching the Immigrants Our Essential Fund, which is dedicated to promoting sustainability and wellness within the immigration sector. How about they do something like that for our service members? Hmm, what do you think?
Do you think that would be a good idea? Council on Foundations announced winner of 2022 Scrivener Award. The Society for Equity Collaborative Fund has honored Borth's Work to See Power to Historically, Marginalized, Hard to Find or Hard to Fund. Racial Justice Groups and Imperial and San Diego Countings in California.
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