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

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report–Teacher Project review found just six states that require caretakers to follow clear guidelines on developmentally appropriate learning strategies for children from birth to age 3. The guidelines also cover age-specific goals relating to memory, problem solving, and self and social awareness, among other areas.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. But we do.”.

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

Edsurge

In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies. When teachers use tools they find online, they can inadvertently run afoul of privacy and security guidelines. Third-party software can share student data in ways that violate district or state standards.

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What’s Ahead for Special Education?

Digital Promise

The Obama administration released a regulations package in December 2016 that they called Equity in IDEA. Another important guidance letter that came out in August 2016 was on supporting students who have behavioral issues associated with their disabilities, ensuring that those students have behavioral supports in school.