The deadline to submit education-centered original works to the Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership is Friday, March 31, 2017. According to their press release, special consideration will be given to works that focus on: 

• STEM education and science literacy
• Project and inquiry based learning
• Teacher leadership and research experiences for educators
• Data literacy and digital learning

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A closer look at the D.C. school that DeVos visited: Jefferson Middle

The Washington Post | March 9, 2017

Schoolteacher Ashley Cobb spends her evenings in what might be called “receive mode.”<br /> <br /> The eighth-grade math teacher at Jefferson Middle School Academy in the District receives dozens of texts and phone calls a day... Read the rest

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  The News and Observer | March 9, 2017

• A Tale of Two Betsy DeVoses

  The Atlantic | March 8, 2017

• Helping Immigrant Students Catch Up, Fast — It Takes A Whole School

  NPR Ed | March 10, 2017

• Northview Middle School students add their voices to improvement plan

  The Hickory Daily Record | March 9, 2017

• OPINION: The senate just blocked ESSA accountability rules — here are three ways states, districts can carry on without federal regulations

  The Hechinger Report | March 9, 2017

• NEA Criticizes Supreme Court Nominee's Judicial Record on Special Education

  Education Week | March 9, 2017

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Liz Bell is the early childhood reporter for EducationNC.