Educational Links 7/15/17

Will Virtual Reality Drive Deeper Learning?

https://www.edutopia.org/article/virtual-reality-drive-deeper-learning-holly-korbey?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Student Trauma Is Real. But Connection Can Heal.

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_leader_voices/2017/07/trauma_is_real_but_connection_.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Summer Learning Happens at Home

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/06/summer-learning-happens-home

The Difference Between Dysgraphia and Expressive Language Issues

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dysgraphia/the-difference-between-dysgraphia-and-expressive-language-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Afghan Girls Robotics Team Allowed To Enter U.S. For Competition

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/537050073/afghan-girls-robotics-team-allowed-to-enter-u-s-for-competition?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170713

What Happens When the Teacher is the Bully?

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2016/11/what-happens-when-the-teacher-is-the-bully/

Prospects Seem Dim for Trump School Choice Initiative This Year

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/07/prospects_for_getting_trump_sc.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to Washington primarily to do one thing: Use the power of her office to expand school choice, her passion for decades.

Members of her own party appeared to deal a major blow to that goal Thursday, when the House panel charged with overseeing education spending approved a bill that doesn't include two of DeVos' big budget asks: using an education research program to offer school vouchers, and allowing Title I dollars to follow students to the school of their choice