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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003), and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000). Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

eSchool News

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. This group makes up at least 20 percent of the general population.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2014. “We In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. million in 2005 to 7.1

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, the U.S. Oil prices dropped in 2014, plunging Alaska into a financial crisis and shrinking state funding for school capital projects from an average of $300 million per year to $124 million. per $100,000 of assessed real or personal property values. They’ll likely get little help from the state.

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