Obama to visit Georgia childhood learning center

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ATLANTA (AP) — A spokeswoman for a suburban Atlanta school system says excitement is building as President Obama plans to visit an early...

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Obama to visit Georgia childhood learning center

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ATLANTA (AP) — A spokeswoman for a suburban Atlanta school system says excitement is building as President Obama plans to visit an early...

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Overcoming Impact of Adversity on Learning

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Poverty, neglect, or family stress can make it especially difficult for young children to develop the self-discipline and habits of mind they will need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Armed with research and a commitment to the whole child, Washington state has transformed the way its agencies work together and in partnership with researchers to address the effects of early adversity on learning and to help disadvantaged children build resiliency and other so-called executive-function skills they need to learn and grow.

In the process, officials hope to create a national model for rapidly translating new research in fields like cognitive and neuroscience into usable practice.

The Innovation by Design work, launched in 2011 through the Frontiers of Innovation initiative at Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, focuses on the importance of executive function, the umbrella term researchers give a collection of skills—focus, working memory, decisionmaking, and self-control among them—which have been found to be associated with academic achievement as well as social and career success. Those skills are governed by the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain just behind the forehead that has been called the "control room." It is one of the areas that sees the most rapid growth...

Already have an account? Please login.Correction:  An earlier version of the box in this story included incorrect labeling.Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that the Innovation by Design work in Washington is part of the national Frontiers of Innovation project of Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child.

Parents Get Training to Support Children's Learning

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Behind one-way glass, Nell Robinson, the parenting-skills program manager, coaches Wences Ramirez on how to interact with his son, Diego, at Childhaven in Seattle. —Nick Adams for Education Week

Educators working to counteract childhood adversity often find themselves waging a two-front war: building the capacity for attention and self-control in both children and their parents.

Childhaven and other groups in Washington state's Innovation by Design Initiative are trying to break intergenerational hardship by fostering such executive-function skills as focus, impulse control, decisionmaking, and resilience in adults and children at the same time.

"Many of our children come from homes where their parents were also raised in environments with toxic stress and trauma," said Vicki Nino Osby, the senior vice president for program operations at Childhaven, a therapeutic early-learning center here. "It makes it doubly difficult for parents to impart good executive function when...

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Digital Learning Fuels K-12 Market Trends

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Last year saw fewer high-profile education mergers and acquisitions than the high-water mark of 2011, but continued developments in the area of digital learning technology contributed to another active year for education companies seeking to diversify their product offerings, a recent analysis concludes.

Some $7 billion changed hands in more than 250 total transactions in 2012 , according to the report released this month by the investment banking firm Berkery Noyes.

Smaller acquisitions and mergers made up the bulk of the transactions, with digital learning technologies fueling...

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Proposed a TOP GOP AIDE SAYS CHANCES that more funds to plug gaps co English teaching and learning

DENVER (not) statement Colorado legislators working for expand funds to help students ...

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