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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Visual schedules of daily events can be created so that the person with autism understands what will be happening at any given time, thereby reducing unpredictability, a factor that often generates anxiety and frustration. Menstrual discomfort as a biological setting event for severe problem behavior: Assessment and intervention.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

Students have been blocked from going to websites that web-filtering software categorizes as “education,” “news,” or “informational.” But even more concerning, especially for some students who spoke with The Markup, are blocks against sex education, abortion information, and resources for LGBTQ+ teens—including suicide prevention.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This week, the topic is money--with the economic troubles brought on by the current pandemic, we want to understand how local and global economics intersects with the education of our children. He promotes the work of the Directorate for Education and Skills on a global stage and fosters co-operation both within and outside the OECD.

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"Homeschooling Hangout" with Pat Farenga

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date: Thursday, March 3rd, 2pm EST (Click on the time link to see the event time in your own time zone.) Farenga is a writer and education activist who addresses academic and general audiences about working with children, not on children, to help them learn.

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Live Thursday Sept. 15 with Sam Chaltain on "Faces of Learning"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Thursday, September 15th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Sam Chaltain, DC-based writer and education activist, on his new book Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education estimated the total cost of needed repairs at $197 billion, or around $220 billion in 2021 dollars. Structural reinforcements to protect against catastrophic weather events are not. Mike Dunleavy, a former educator. In 2014, the U.S. billion and $2.9 billion, the study’s authors estimated.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.