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More Sleep (and Better Student Performance) in Seattle

(from NPR) Two years after moving times to extend the sleeping hours of middle and high school students, the Seattle School District is seeing better grades, less tardiness, fewer absences. In the 2016-17 school year, th
  • Gift

Holiday Giving on the Rise

(from the Chronicle of Philanthropy) Giving Tuesday, the annual day devoted to philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, raised roughly $380 million for charities from 4 million people, organizers said. The results
  • Planning

Advance Closure Notice Draws Praise

(from Inside Higher Ed) Boston's Newbury College announced Friday that it will close at the end of the spring 2019 semester, drawing support from state regulators and others for "making this difficult choice in an orderl
  • Human Resources

Easy Ways to Encourage Employee Wellness

(from Forbes) With cold and flu season settling in, here are four ways to encourage wellness in the office, not just during winter but year-round. 

Teacher Union Succeeds in Charter School Network

(Nonprofit Quarterly) By going on strike, the teachers of Chicago’s 15-school Acero network took a step once limited to traditional public schools. Within a week, teachers settled with the network’s management on favorab
  • Gift

Why Donors Give on Social Networks

(from Associations NOW) Nearly 40 percent of donors who give on social networks are giving to a nonprofit for the first time, according to a recent report. They often know little about the cause before showing their supp
  • Leadership

CFOs Primed to Lead Change

(from McKinsey) CFOs say the number of functions reporting to them has risen from about four to more than six over the past two years, according to McKinsey research. The portion of CFOs that oversee their companies’ dig
  • Leadership

Campus Consolidation

(from Inside Higher Ed) Mergers among small private colleges have been in the news lately. In 2017, Wheelock College said it would merge into nearby Boston University, and a recent survey by Inside Higher Ed found that 2
  • Communication

Gen Z's Defining Characteristics

(from Society for Human Resource Management) Generation Z’s birth years are generally recognized as 1996 to 2009. The cohort includes only those who do not remember the September 11 terrorist attacks. According to a 16-y
  • Technology

Tech Like VR, AI May Transform Schools

(from Entrepreneur) Five technologies may transform schools in the future, projects Peter Diamandis, co-founder of Silicon Valley think tank. 
  • Enrollment

  • Risk Management

Insuring Against Enrollment Drop

(from Inside Higher Ed) The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in tuition revenue from Chinese students. In what is thought to be a world first, the c
  • Facilities

Doing Away with Snow Days

(from Edutopia) In school districts across the country, snow days are becoming relics of the past. Replaced with "remote school days," students complete coursework at home using internet-connected devices. One argument i

Most Education Software Goes Unused

(from Education Next) Most educational software licenses go unused in K-12 districts, according to a new report by scholars at the University of Pennsylvania. Data from BrightBytes, a K-12 data management company, reveal
  • Policy

  • Risk Management

NY Closer to Requiring Private Schools to Report Abuse

(from WIVB) A bill under review by New York Governor Mario Cuomo would require the state's private schools to report all instances of sexual abuse to the police. The governor's signature would effectively close a loophol
  • Safety and Security

Hockey Pucks as Safety Measure

(from the Chronicle of Higher Education) Oakland University has purchased thousands of hockey pucks, not for hockey but to fight off a school shooter when running or hiding is no longer an option. The idea was sparked by
  • Leadership

  • Technology

School in a Storefront?

(from ICEF Monitor) A new report, "Deliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education," released by Georgia Tech University proposes new ways to reduce costs, improve effectiveness and increase opportunities and accessibility to
  • Human Resources

New Checklist to Assess Workplace Training

(from Rice University) A checklist that organizations can use when developing, implementing and evaluating employee training programs has recently been developed by researchers at Rice University and the University of Il
  • Food Service

Co-ops Help Schools Save on Food Costs

(from District Administration) Schools are turning to food and purchasing cooperatives to save five to seven percent on food costs. One school in rural Minnesota, for example, struggled to find healthy and affordable opt
  • Admission

  • Enrollment

Lowering Application Barriers Ups Enrollment

(from EAB) In terms of college admissions, reducing application requirements leads to a significant increases in both applications and yield. This finding holds true across different types of institutions, according to r
  • Risk Management

Free Private School for Wildfire Victims

(from KRQE) Students displaced by the destructive Camp Fire outside Sacramento, California, have been offered free tuition to nearly 40 Sacramento Catholic schools through the end of the school year. Tuition to these sch

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