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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. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful.

Learning 111
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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Domenech has served as Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association since July 2008. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A. Domenech has more than 36 years of experience in public education, twenty-seven of those years served as a school superintendent.

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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Issues we used to consider secondary or tertiary (religion, language, ethnicity) have become primary. The Latino Boom, 1993-2008 (plus smaller populations of Bosnians and other refugees). African refugees are pouring into our state – usually they are secondary migrants (first stop was another U.S. Two fundamental shifts.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

The transparency mandate was tucked into the 2015 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act but didn’t require states to report that data until June 30 of this year. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy.

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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

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He said that the secondary market has been bad for students as well as for the publishers, describing used books with highlighting marks from previous owners as “subpar offerings.” “We “It’s going to be a journey, and it’s a long path that we’ve been going along with students to earn back that trust.” Who Owns Student Data?

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. “I Second grade teacher Lynnon Carney helps a student with math at Arise Academy.