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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

Instead, we tend to excuse inadequate or unsavory outcomes as necessary growing pains in the pursuit of “innovation.” When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions.

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

The Hechinger Report

A really good transition plan shows how each year of school is linked to the next and the final outcome that they’re looking for,” said Leslie Darrell, a speech pathologist in Maine who often works with transition-aged students. “If Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He is saving money to buy his own home. Weekly Update.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. In practice, this process is more complicated and sometimes relegates capable students into diluted settings, stunting their ability to not only learn in school but also to achieve later in life. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework. So it was never tailored toward somebody with a learning disability.”. That’s very easy to tell somebody,” Hendricks said.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

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How are college campuses preparing for a post-Roe world?

The Hechinger Report

After more than two years of pandemic learning, she wanted to finish her classes and her thesis, graduate and go. If college students lose access to abortions, Upadhyay said, she sees three possible outcomes. Beyond student advocacy networks, young people can also seek help through hotlines and abortion funds.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” “ Can personalized learning prevail? Contests and Awards.