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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

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The Evolution of Response to Intervention When President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act in 1975, it was because public schools had a history of systematically denying students with special needs access to a public school education. A key challenge facing RTI implementation is there is no guide or handbook.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Unequal access to external support: Staff can’t just assume students will have access to the same resources at home or that they will willingly talk about what they have and don’t have. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A.

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In spite of rising tuition, one country manages to shepherd poor kids into college

The Hechinger Report

Since the higher level of fees have come in, we’ve seen the highest proportion ever of low-income students in higher education,” said Les Ebdon, a former university vice-chancellor, or president, who now holds the singularly British title of national director of fair access to higher education. That’s up from six times more likely in 1970.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Especially in states like Arizona, where families have little access to mental health care, students often turn to school counseling to triage their personal crises.

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