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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

Edsurge

Yet when I went in search of data to see if he had ever been identified as a student in need of assistance or intervention, the issue was more than clear. There were no records beyond state standardized testing data available for me to review. It is important to note that secondary and elementary assessment systems will be different.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Using Learning Science to Create Action on Equity

edWeb.net

Make it a collaborative process and gather data from everyone involved. His interests include strategic creation and use of data systems as well as supports for public school employees. Examine adult practices. Administrators and educators need to look at their own actions and determine what role they play in student outcomes.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. In short, the authors note, “security and data privacy have an extraordinary and increasing significance on the horizon of higher education institutions.”

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

The Hechinger Report

That data matches what YEP instructors have heard anecdotally: Students who drop out, even those who eventually take the HiSET, often become completely disengaged from education, sometimes for years. “We YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system.

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Is universal preschool the answer? Britain says ‘yes’

The Hechinger Report

Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. The study in question, called Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE), tracked 3,000 children from the mid-1990s through 2008. “We think of it as common sense.”.