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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

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Over the past two years, the consortium has created open-access materials intended to make it easy for universities to start offering coursework on the topic of early childhood policy. But most college programs that address early childhood education still focus on classroom teaching, not policy.

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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

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The Evolution of Response to Intervention When President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act in 1975, it was because public schools had a history of systematically denying students with special needs access to a public school education. A key challenge facing RTI implementation is there is no guide or handbook.

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Impero Software Announces New Version of its Flagship Product ? Impero Education Pro ? at ISTE 2018

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Chicago, June 24, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools today announced the latest version of its award-winning product, Impero Education Pro V7. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits.

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Impero Software Names Richard Fuller as New CEO and Announces its New Austin, TX Headquarters in the U.S.

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Impero is a leading provider of classroom management, network management and online safety software to schools throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits. million devices in over 90 countries.

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Impero Software Partners with Mental Health America to Help Identify Mental Health Concerns in Schools

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Austin, TX, May 10, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools, has partnered with the national nonprofit Mental Health America (MHA) to help schools detect potential mental health concerns among students. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

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Austin, TX, May 18, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools, today announces Philip Walters as its new board chairman. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits.

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

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But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We