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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

Edsurge

Compared to workers in offices or remote jobs, teachers have always had a harder time keeping up with the varying needs of adult life: car repairs, doctors’ appointments, meeting a plumber. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. that would keep them in the classroom. So let’s imagine.

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

Edsurge

She invited me to meet with Jason, who filled me in on his situation. Once education professionals realized that there was a difference between students who needed special education versus those who were not succeeding but did not meet eligibility criteria for special education services, there was a clear need for a better support structure.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a chilly Wednesday in April at the end of his last-ever quarterly meeting with the district’s parent advisory committee. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes.

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OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

The Hechinger Report

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. As these students rise to meet the challenges facing them, colleges and universities must match their determination.

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. from Penn where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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ESSA learning more, doing more

NeverEndingSearch

After eight years without a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), ESSA becomes law with references to school libraries and librarians. We need to meet with the Departments of Education in our states to ensure we are part of the competitive grant programs to launch in 2017.