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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Thus, individuals can be taught how to communicate their needs and frustrations. Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. Tasks can be restructured to maximize success. Giacin, T.A.,

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. In 2003, when Robert Clark retired, his son Bryant Clark ran for his father’s old seat.

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