Advocacy Assessment Dropout Information 
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 1, 2017
The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. All the information was on the internet.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Students with disabilities process information differently, so they need more explicit instruction to develop and use these skills than general education students do. Districts recognized the need to assess how the student would do in college or work or the community and then provide services in accordance with what they find.”.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 15, 2017
She struggles with decision-making and executive function, which are the skills that allow people to organize information and respond to it. An accurate and thoughtful assessment of a student’s abilities and interests. Many districts rely on formal assessments to help schools create viable plans for students.
MindShift
JUNE 18, 2020
A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. Use online systems to assess, remediate and individualize learning.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 16, 2017
Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 21, 2017
Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Specific queries were repeatedly answered with claims that the information was unavailable or would take dozens of hours to obtain. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.
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