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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? What do you hope will happen with this data? 2021, July).

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Inside a Preschool That Treats the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis

Edsurge

The National Head Start Association, a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, convened an Opioid Working Group in spring 2018 after hearing from educators that children in areas hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic were exhibiting an unusually high frequency and intensity of challenging behaviors.

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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

The Hechinger Report

The study followed 23,000 students beginning in 2009, when they were in the ninth grade. An analysis of the resulting data by the Center for American Progress found that even the highest-achieving low-income students went to college at lower rates than their more affluent counterparts. It’s just the way society is.”

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How Columbia’s $182 million property-tax break hurts New York

The Hechinger Report

The law saves Columbia more than $182 million annually, according to an analysis by The New York Times. The university also said it had spent more than $100 million in upgrades to local infrastructure since 2009 and that it would soon pay to replace two escalators at a subway station on 125th Street.

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‘Bigly’ Education Decisions for 2017

Edsurge

President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. According to our Whiteboard Advisors Post Election Analysis , 94 percent of our Education Insiders believe that Trump will restore the program’s funding. It allows about 1,200 eligible students in Washington D.C.

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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

The Hechinger Report

White students account for less than 5 percent of enrollment in these districts, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state data. y the time Samara Rand started high school in 2009, the Mississippi Department of Education had labeled Holmes County Schools “at risk of failing.” His only question is whether it will be voluntary.

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

A local teenage girl named Ty’sheoma Bethea wrote the president and members of Congress in February 2009, pleading for their help in replacing J.V. Photo: Alan Richard. After he was elected, the town of Dillon stayed on Obama’s radar. Martin, a section of which had been condemned since the president’s visit a few months earlier. “We

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