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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice. This latest Campbell Collaboration study was commissioned to see if newer research, published from 2000 to September 2021, would move the dial. Some children thrived while others did very badly in regular classrooms. It did not.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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The school counselor pipeline is broken. Can new federal money fix it?

The Hechinger Report

He briefly considered a career in law, but settled on psychology after working in an inpatient clinic for children and adolescents after college. He’s worked in several settings since starting his program in clinical and school psychology in 2020, and found interest in them all. But it kept pulling me back.”

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Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? It might cost $7,500

The Hechinger Report

The school district balked at one provider who charged well above the state rate, according to Busby; but in early 2021, after repeated inquiries from Busby, school officials offered up an alternative. In February, the pre-teen traveled to the Boston area for two days of psychological evaluations, including a thorough reading assessment.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. In the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, she encourages students to think about what their communities need and what kinds of support they and their peers might benefit from.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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Black and Latino infants and toddlers often miss out on early therapies they need

The Hechinger Report

.: Black children made up less than half of children receiving early intervention in 2021, but represented 76 percent of those receiving special education for school-age children. She had to push over years for a full psychological evaluation. In Maryland, those figures were 31 percent and 41 percent, respectively.

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