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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. based nonprofit focused on homeless education. Data disclosed in U.S.

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Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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Some Families Hope Pandemic Can Spur Change in Special Education

MindShift

This story about special education services was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Once those services resumed, Vaughn said sessions were shorter than the time mandated by her children’s individualized education programs.

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Despite family and work commitments, student veterans outpace classmates

The Hechinger Report

Veterans in College Source: National Veteran Education Success Tracker. The VA did conduct a survey in 2010 that found that veterans who went to college using GI Bill benefits between the end of the Korean War and Sept. 11, 2001 graduated at a rate of between 66 percent and 68 percent.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. ” Many educators were angered , insisting that this wasn’t their fault. I get that.