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The quest for ‘embodied equity’ on college campuses focuses on neurodivergent students

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She had a “near photographic” memory and didn’t need to study, she said, so she never learned how to. Elliott is what’s now called twice exceptional , a term used to refer to children who are gifted in some areas, but also experience a learning or developmental challenge. And so she was always bored in school. Elliot said.

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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

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A 2002 ballot initiative, supported by 61 percent of voters, made English-only instruction mandatory for students who need to learn the language (unless they get a special waiver). Related: English one day, Español the next: Dual-language learning expands with a South Bronx school as a model.

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Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it

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Last year alone, more than 900,000 low-income students who applied for and were found eligible for state financial aid for college never received it, because states ran out of money, according to a new analysis of state data by The Hechinger Report. Related: Report: Universities relying more on tuition than state and local money.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

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Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. To answer that question, The Hechinger Report combed through grant databases, legislative records and lobbying disclosures, looking for the forces and funding behind LD 1422. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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As diagnoses rise, more colleges add services for students with autism

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Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report. Not a lot of places have programs for kids with this sort of interesting cluster of challenges,” said Geoff Calkins, who learned this when he was searching for a college with his son Andrew. Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report.

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How a New Hampshire school uses personalization to put the tools in the hands of the learners

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The demand for making the learning experience responsive to every student’s individual learning needs is accelerating. Today’s education and cognitive scientists affirm that every learner has a dynamic profile of strengths and challenges that impacts their learning journey. Photo: Tatiana Kolesnikova/Getty Images.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our newsletter. Eventually, he dropped out too.

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