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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

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We know many districts wanted to use ESSER funds to hire more staff, but workforce shortages prevented them from doing so,” Vaillancourt Strobach says, referring to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

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The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. We hope the reach spreads more organically. It is challenging.

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OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

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While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. Examples like these show that campus leaders can drive substantive change in how their institutions serve students with disabilities.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Now we also offer Smarty Ants® for personalized foundational literacy and Actively Learn for secondary curriculum depth.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

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For example, community members may use school computers to fill out necessary online paperwork with assistance from school staff or help local civic organizations set up alumni databases and communications networks. in elementary education from the University of Virginia. Jamie holds a B.A. in psychology and an M.T. About the Host.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.