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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

Guidelines put out by the U.S. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. The studies came just as the U.S. For the child, the results were wounding.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

That changed in the 2019-20 school year when the federal government for the first time made public the race and ethnicity breakdowns for individual school districts. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. Data disclosed in U.S.

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Column: As Betsy DeVos steps down, critics hope it is time to put the public back in public education

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a White House meeting, March 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. DeVos “enthusiastically sent our taxpayer dollars to schools that explicitly and actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ students,” Eliza Byard, the executive director of the advocacy group GLSEN , said in a statement.

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

The Hechinger Report

The family had just moved and now has to wake up earlier to make the half hour drive across town to Jaslynn’s elementary school, which is in their old neighborhood. one early-March morning for the half hour drive to Jaslynn’s elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was 8:38 a.m. the night before. So you’re stuck.”.

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

High school students have become an increasing force in climate change activism; in 2019, hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school and took to the streets to protest the climate crisis in a global strike. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López. The middle school standards do not mention climate change or global warming.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

A study by George Washington University’s Center on Education Policy found that between 2001 and 2007, 36 percent of districts decreased elementary classroom time spent on social studies, including civics – a drop that most affected underfunded schools serving working-class, poor, rural, and inner-city kids." Naturally. .