Daily Edition: Education Starts At Home 11/21

VocabularySpellingCity Name This Game Contest

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spellingcity.com - VocabularySpellingCity is introducing a new game, and we need you to help us name it! Teachers, get your whole class involved. Parents, get your whole family involved. Here's how to enter:

Citizen Diplomacy - Global Learning - Education Week

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blogs.edweek.org - We're in Washington, DC for the U.S.-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong are expected to speak later today...

Can the Urban Harlem Children's Zone Model Work for Rural Schools? - Rural Education - Education Week

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blogs.edweek.org - Berea, Ky. The visionary founder of the Harlem Children's Zone told rural education advocates Wednesday that the same approach that has helped to tackle the cycle of poverty in New York City can wo...

Which States Are Most Vulnerable to K-12 Sequester Cuts? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

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blogs.edweek.org - Sequestration—those 5 percent across-the-board cuts that hit school districts this year and are slated to be in place for a decade—has affected some districts and states harder than others. Part of...

Philadelphia Parents Flood State With Special Education Complaints - On Special Education - Education Week

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blogs.edweek.org - Parents of students in the financially troubled Philadelphia school district have filed hundreds of special education and educational-adequacy complaints with the Pennsylvania Department of Educati...