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PROOF POINTS: New answers to old questions about special education

The Hechinger Report

A group of economists found a clever way around this problem by studying 24,000 elementary and middle school students who were diagnosed with a specific learning disability from 2006 to 2012 in New York City, the largest school district in the country. This is not the first study to attempt to calculate the benefit of special education.

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

Use these first day of school read-alouds to teach social skills to your elementary students: David Goes to School by David Shannon. Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2002, 167(6), pp. The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place. Appropriations: FY 2002 $700,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $817,096,000).

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

By facilitating discussions and encouraging critical analysis, educators can equip students with the tools they need to navigate media thoughtfully and responsibly. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional-development program for upper-elementary school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing teaching, the “Student Thinking Lens” and the “Science Content Storyline Lens,” to analyze videos of teaching practice.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997.

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Preschool for children with disabilities works, but federal funding for it is plummeting

The Hechinger Report

Dysart Unified’s preschool program for students with disabilities , which is offered at each of its elementary schools and staffed with teams of teachers, therapists and paraprofessionals, has become a model for Arizona. The goal of the program is to give kids with disabilities the services they need and a head start in school.

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