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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

Edsurge

Over the past two years, the consortium has created open-access materials intended to make it easy for universities to start offering coursework on the topic of early childhood policy. To share open-access resources like these, the initiative is currently seeking proposals to design a digital platform to host materials.

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Schools must do more to help families overcome language barriers

eSchool News

Language barriers make it difficult for parents with limited English proficiency (LEP) to advocate for their children, talk to educators about their child’s progress, and gain access to information about special education services, gifted and talented programs, discipline policies, parent handbooks, and more.

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

Edsurge

The Evolution of Response to Intervention When President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act in 1975, it was because public schools had a history of systematically denying students with special needs access to a public school education. A key challenge facing RTI implementation is there is no guide or handbook.

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Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Districts

edWeb.net

Also, using various communications platforms and resources such as the district website, student and staff handbooks, and newsletters to parents can ensure that all stakeholders align with district policies. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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5 Critical Guidelines for Student Data Privacy

edWeb.net

You might need to rethink all of your family documents from teacher presentations to handbooks to explain how your district protects student information. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.

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To Raise a Reader

Reading By Example

Layne and The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. Some hospitals will send The Read-Aloud Handbook home with new parents. Educators feel the same way when we discover a new strategy or method and then think about all of the students we had in the past who did not have access to this better practice.