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Everyone working in public health knows that the obesity crisis in America is about much more than personal responsibility. (Hopefully much of America has made that leap by now.) But we also know that even the biggest changes start at home with one small step.

On world teacher's day, it only seemed right we should round-out our week's picks with a paper that focuses on stellar teachers.

In the future, the benefits of blended learning will accrue to schools that can integrate it across their instructional, operational and financial models - but the short term temptation is a rush into technology-based solutions that remain disconnected from the broader needs of schools.

From the start the Dell Young Leaders scholarship program was designed to offer more than a check. It includes everything from academic tutoring to social mentoring to help obtaining basic supplies in order to stretch students' monthly budgets. Peer mentorship is also key.

This week on the weekly roundup, we share stories about childhood obesity, blended learning, charter schools, and the education gap.

At Rocketship Education, we view the key to our blended learning model as tight alignment between classroom instruction and online learning. But we’ve long faced technical hurdles in providing provide meaningful and actionable data from our Learning Lab to our classroom teachers.

This week's stories examine the roots of the childhood obesity epidemic and the relationship between poverty and low-performing schools. Highlights from Sara Neufeld, Ted Fishman, Alex Kotlowitz and others.

When Alliance College-Ready Public Schools launched Blended Learning for Alliance School Transformation (BLAST), we were confident that the integration of technology into our curriculum would help us individualize instruction for all students. What we didn’t fully appreciate was the impact on teachers.

In our weekly roundup, we've compiled links to stories about childhood obesity in schools, and pulled together a trio of pieces, from Dana Goldstein, Jackie Zubrzycki and Sara Mead, about the complexities of effectively evaluating educators.

If we’re serious about education reform, we must do more than focus on either/or prescriptions for reform (charter vs. district, traditional vs. blended, innovation-focus vs. accountability-fouces, etc.), and focus on equipping real world teachers with the supports and tools they need to do their best work with every child every day.