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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

His seventh-graders set their own learning goals and focus on mastering skills and knowledge via a combination of online resources (such as BrainPOP and Kahn Academy) and painstaking guidance and support from a team of teachers. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. And the reason is, everyone has access to it.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

The Georgia program caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation that lasted several years, and resulted in a 21-page letter of findings in July, 2015, and a lawsuit in August, 2016. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. Jonathan Zimring, disability attorney for 40 years.