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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Vision ” refers to the question of whether all relevant participants (e.g., Skills ” refer to the ability of every participant in the system to carry out relevant support strategies. Incentives ” refer to the payoff that participants in the system receive for doing the right thing. Consider a school system.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties. We’re all champing at the bit.

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Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

The Hechinger Report

Brendan Mullican, a former student at Sam Houston State, served in the Navy for four years, including in the Middle East during the 2003 Iraq War. Instead, the university referred the debt to a collection agency without telling him, he said. These students cannot reenroll until their debts are fully paid. The search for solutions.

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