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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

Related: While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own That incipient definition characterized a lot of early thinking about dyslexia. was creating its own special education categories and definitions to prepare for the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

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Deb : Definitely. Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? Ten states and D.C. 2021, July).

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

The Hechinger Report

Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, has put its program on pause while it seeks more clarity on the changing federal guidelines, Katherine Frohoff, a university spokesperson, said by email. In its March announcement, the Department of Education declared that ISAs are by definition private education loans.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. Whatever “it” is. But altruism is not the same as justice.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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Lesson plans and activities Anti-Bias Tools & Strategies (by ADL): A collection of ADL's articles ranging from teaching strategies to historical info to topical and definitional overviews, all aimed at anti-bias education.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

That helped advocates launch what would become a nearly decade-long campaign in Congress to weave better health and safety guidelines into CCDBG. It’s not the easily accessible, plain language vision that was laid out in CCDBG. “I Some states changed their definitions, and others did not. Here’s where we stand, 10 years later.

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