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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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To Raise a Reader

Reading By Example

Layne and The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. Some hospitals will send The Read-Aloud Handbook home with new parents. It was a book I relied on when I taught elementary school. MY STUDENTS ARE NOT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Trelease’s resource is in its 7th edition now and should be in the home of every family.

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

The Hechinger Report

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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S ocial Justice Books (by Teaching for Change): A highly recommended resource for preschool and elementary school educators, this list of books intersects with all kinds of important cultural and social issues and will help students build perspective.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

As librarians, our job is to not only give students and teachers access to resources they need to succeed, but to be their guide when choosing these resources. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates. All students deserve access to a school library. Who is the modern librarian?