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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. from Penn where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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Massachusetts Is Investing Big in Early Care and Education. It’s Paying Off.

Edsurge

Through a state program called Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3), which was funded at $475 million for fiscal year 2024 and which the governor has recommended be renewed at the same level for fiscal year 2025, nearly 93 percent of licensed providers in the state are receiving monthly stipends. It all has to come together for it to work.”

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

Thirty-five states require that instructors meet the same requirements as faculty at the partner college, nine that they have a master’s degree or higher, and six that they’ve taken graduate courses in the subject they’re teaching, according to the Education Commission of the States and Midwestern Higher Education Compact.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

This year’s nearly 13,500 eighth graders will be the first students required to meet the changed requirements, which are being phased in gradually. By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. billion by 2025. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

That’s the separate goal set out by the Lumina Foundation to achieve by 2025. Tennessee, for example, which famously made its community colleges free, is on target to have 55 percent of its residents possess certificates or degrees two years ahead of the 2025 deadline, outgoing Gov. Why haven’t other states had the same growth?”

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