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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In

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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

In fact, many of the documents, like Massachusetts’, explicitly state that the standards should not impact the state’s child care regulations. Upping the academic standards without corresponding support and training for caregivers could be an exercise in futility. Read the whole series.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

In addition to their focus on reading, library teachers are responsible for promoting information and digital literacies, which help democratize academic standards and provide students access to learning resources otherwise unavailable. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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Clinton looks to move Democrats away from ‘Education Wars’

The Hechinger Report

While the Clinton campaign has focused on issues that unite the party—such as expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs, raising teacher pay and increasing school funding— a recent fight over the party’s platform, a document that lays out the party’s policy goals, underscores how difficult ending the party’s internal education wars could be.