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OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

The Hechinger Report

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. Examples like these show that campus leaders can drive substantive change in how their institutions serve students with disabilities.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

edWeb.net

For example, community members may use school computers to fill out necessary online paperwork with assistance from school staff or help local civic organizations set up alumni databases and communications networks. He founded Esports Alaska in 2018 that had over 30 teams compete in its inaugural season. About the Host.

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Data-Driven Decision Making: Who’s the decider?

Reading By Example

ILA (@ILAToday) October 10, 2018. For example, Samantha Mosher, a secondary special education teacher, guides her students to develop their own IEP goals as well as how to use various tools to monitor their own progress. Hope you can join us! — The ownership for the work rests largely on the students’ shoulders.

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How to Bring Authenticity to Learning that Happens in School

MindShift

Mehta said the best examples he has seen during the school day are in science classes. Lehmann, the Philadelphia principal, embodies this attitude perhaps as well as any secondary educator in America. There’s no way around that.'[/pullquote]. pullquote]. Why do I need to know this?’.

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Can the Right Nudge Help Low-income Kids Go Beyond High School?

MindShift

Wednesday, February 14, 2018. Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report).

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. In Indianapolis Public Schools, for example, the Center for Inquiry School 84 has a lower portion of kids getting free or reduced-price lunch than any other school in the district, at just 8 percent.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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