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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education?

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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Schools investing in recovery programs do so without an abundance of research connecting the programs to improved student outcomes. She credits the Breaking Free club with creating the community she and her peers need to beat back their insecurities and succeed in the classroom. The price tag is not the same,” he said.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

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For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework. They settled on four skills to focus on in the classroom and for students to practice in internships.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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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. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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Superintendents then leave it up to principals and often parents to decide whether to use corporal punishment on a given student, creating unequal systems of discipline within the same communities and even the same classrooms. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. These are the only possible two things we can come up with?”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Education in the Courts. ”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” “New study raises concerns about impact of automated social media advocacy on education coverage,” says Alexander Russo. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core.