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When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

Edsurge

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Students lost between 3 and 14 months of learning.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

A third of school leaders reported an increase in fights among students, and 56 percent said there had been an uptick in classroom disruptions that they attributed to Covid disruptions, according to a federal survey released in May 2022. You can’t learn if you’re not feeling safe or nurtured.” in September 2022.

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out. In mid-February 2022, he was suspended for 10 days from his Maryland high school after he threatened to beat up a school employee who had ordered him out of a bathroom. L]ike any tool, [threat assessment] can also be abused.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

Currently, students are recommended for involuntary virtual learning by the principal, she said, and these placements are tracked aggregately along with suspensions, which makes identifying the particular impact of virtualization difficult. Louis, in the spring of 2022. Louis area home on June 10, 2023.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

eSchool News

Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 In addition to her role as Content Lead for Libraries, Michelle served as President of the Iowa School Association of School Librarians in 2022, and Past President in 2023. Leveraging these adaptive, personalized programs, Maria has created an environment where students thrive.

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Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve

The Hechinger Report

Related: Social emotional learning is the latest flashpoint in the education wars. The past two years have been grueling for many teachers, as they coped with a pandemic that forced them to toggle between remote and in-person learning — and sometimes do both at once — and staffing shortages that have added to their workloads.

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