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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

In fact, many of the documents, like Massachusetts’, explicitly state that the standards should not impact the state’s child care regulations. Regardless of income level, access to quality care for 2-year-olds is tight. Since 62 percent of 2-year-olds had working mothers in 2016, according to U.S. Read the whole series.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

The disconnect between what school leaders buy and what teachers actually use is well-documented. So far, the library has since been accessed by around 250,000 teachers, who have made more than 9 million student accounts for the apps, according to the company. To access the app, students simply navigate to the class’s Clever page.

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What’s Ahead for Special Education?

Digital Promise

The Obama administration put forth several guidance documents that changed the way the federal government protected students with disabilities. The Obama administration released a regulations package in December 2016 that they called Equity in IDEA. ” How is federal policy shifting for students with disabilities?

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact—whether through changing academic standards, testing tools, teacher accountability and technology implementation—to make them a reality. The process is the same as parsing hyped ads from the unwrapped product in your hand.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

As librarians, our job is to not only give students and teachers access to resources they need to succeed, but to be their guide when choosing these resources. Prioritizing equitable library access for students As school libraries evolve and best practices shift accordingly, there is one constant to solve for: equity.

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Clinton looks to move Democrats away from ‘Education Wars’

The Hechinger Report

While the Clinton campaign has focused on issues that unite the party—such as expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs, raising teacher pay and increasing school funding— a recent fight over the party’s platform, a document that lays out the party’s policy goals, underscores how difficult ending the party’s internal education wars could be.