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Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen

The Hechinger Report

Concerned parents and school staff flocked to community meetings and legislative sessions to speak out against it. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place. Literacy coach Melissa Knapp works in a first grade classroom at Harpeth Valley Elementary in Nashville.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

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Focusing on Social Justice as a Path to Equity

edWeb.net

Davis, Superintendent of Richland School District Two (SC), starts every meeting. To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. How are the children?”

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

A review by The Hechinger Report of complaints to the Colorado Department of Education found that district threat determinations appeared to flout disability law in at least four other cases since 2015. Peter Mosby is principal at Rock Ridge Elementary School in a suburb of Denver.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

After the ceremony, I went out onto the field to meet my son, and he gave me a big hug,” Qassataq recalled last month. Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. iq, couldn’t spot her son. She finally saw him, wearing a plain mortarboard.

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Is repeating third grade — again and again — good for kids?

The Hechinger Report

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary. In 2015, 52.4