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CASE Once Again Endorses Classworks® Special Education Platform

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This month, CASE re-endorsed Classworks as a top-tier special education resource through 2027. The mission of CASE is to provide leadership and support to members by shaping policies and practices that impact the quality of education. Every three years, the platform undergoes a rigorous evaluation by the CASE Executive Committee.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

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Davis, an assistant professor in the department of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And those groups that just don't have the means or the access will be left even further behind.” One of those researchers is Cassandra R.

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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. State and federal policies need to provide the foundation for ongoing technological research and innovation, affordability and sustainability.

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OPINION: The pandemic wiped out decades of progress for preschoolers. It’s time to get them back on track

The Hechinger Report

For the roughly 25 percent of American children who live in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and New Mexico, the inability to access pre-K could become a thing of the past. Two decades of tracking state preschool policies have taught us that pre-K promises are not always kept.

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‘August surprise’: That college scholarship you earned might not count

The Hechinger Report

I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ ” He took out loans, then went to graduate school to study public policy, in the meantime lobbying for California’s ban on scholarship displacement — though it is coming too late for him. And they should make their policies around this more clear.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

That’s starting to change as federal forecasts show part-time enrollment outpacing full-time enrollment through at least 2027 and other new figures shed light on how long it takes for part-time students to graduate. “Students like us were not the focus of the program,” she said. “A A lot of us felt invisible.”.

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Girls Who Code Founder Awarded McGraw Education Prize

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When they get access to technology, they tend to ask: How can I use technology to make the world better? I always tell policy makers: ‘Don't take your eyes off gender.’ We’re on track to achieve gender parity in entry-level computer science jobs by 2027. Dig into that: What do you mean? I see girls who say, ‘My mother is obese.

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