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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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He has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports, and editorials in major newspapers. He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project, and The Nation. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A.

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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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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

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In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. The point of the ranking, however, is to encourage state officials to assess their policies and programs. That’s a common restriction nationwide.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

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Preferences can be assessed and individuals can be taught to make choices related to their preferences, thereby minimizing the frustration of seldom being able to choose what is meaningful. Menstrual discomfort as a biological setting event for severe problem behavior: Assessment and intervention. The Reporter 13(2), 1-5, 15.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

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Internal government documents, watchdog reports and interviews with veterans’ policy advocates, government staffers and other officials suggest that little has been done to crack down on colleges accused of predatory behavior. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

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Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. White students account for less than 5 percent of enrollment in these districts, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state data.

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