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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

Edsurge

You are meeting the learners in the Manaiakalani education program. weekly, for three years via micro finance to lease a Chromebook for their child. Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change.

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

The Hechinger Report

You talk to anybody at a school or staff about the need, and whether they have what they need to meet the needs of these kids. A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob.

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Some Families Hope Pandemic Can Spur Change in Special Education

MindShift

You talk to anybody at a school or staff about the need, and whether they have what they need to meet the needs of these kids. A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob.