Bright Education Blog

Recently, officials from Iowa’s Emmetsburg Community School Board received the preliminary Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) report from the state’s Department of Education, Emmetsburg News reported. While high schoolers met their AYP goals, the same could not be said of students from Emmetsburg’s middle school and West Elementary institution. According to John Joynt, Emmetsburg’s superintendent of […]

It has been about five years since students attending classes at North Carolina's Mooresville Graded School District first started using laptops to enhance their instruction, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. Between then and now, Mooresville pupils have benefited greatly from these technological classroom resources. This is good news, considering the fact that District officials had originally prepared for a […]

With the new academic year comes a fresh round of standardized testing for students taking classes within Georgia's Newton County School System. Beginning on September 10, all sixth-graders will be required to take the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), the Newton Citizen reported. This testing period will run for several days, and see to it that […]

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are designed to have a positive impact on the quality of students’ education. For this reason, West Virginia’s Raleigh County School District is slowing its transition to the CCSS, the Beckley Register-Herald reported, as there is concern it would not be seamless enough. While the District has already begun […]

Before the 2014-2015 academic year comes to a close, schools throughout Louisiana will implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), according to the state’s Department of Education. While local education officials believe the CCSS will be beneficial to students, they admit they will also provide a challenge. John C. White, the Louisiana superintendent of education, […]

For schools, the new academic year has always been synonymous with change. Some students show up for their first day of classes with a new lunchbox, while others are simply a little taller. In Alabama, however, pupils will not be the only ones who have changed, as districts plan to introduce them to the Common […]

According to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills’ (P21) website, a gap exists between the knowledge and skills students acquire in school and what they need to know in order to succeed throughout life. Fortunately, P21’s framework for 21st-century learning, as well as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), addresses these concerns. Many educators across […]

For students, the new school year presents an opportunity to improve their academic performance, make new friends and ultimately get  a fresh start. The same could be said of Tennessee’s Sevier County School System, which, through the introduction of several new programs, is able to provide students with a new type of educational experience, The […]

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he believes that schools' transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) might be "a little bumpy or choppy." At the same time, he still thinks the education initiative is a step in the right direction. According to Duncan, the […]

In January 2011, the GE Foundation awarded the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) a $20.4 million grant the district would receive over a five-year period, according to the Foundation’s website. The money, which was meant to go toward improving student achievement as well as better preparing pupils for college and the workforce, represented the largest ever […]