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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

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Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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In 2023, the American Psychological Association reported that math anxiety is prevalent and can last well into adulthood. In her years working on the federally funded longitudinal study, Harper gathered enough evidence to conclude that many parents lacked confidence in their own math abilities.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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According to a 2024 study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia Universitys Teacher College, dual enrollment increased by 46 percent from 2015 to 2021, and another 18 percent from 2021 to 2023. Currently, the program offers a math program and could soon include biology, English, and potentially physics or psychology.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

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Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds. We dont afford that kind of support to educators who, frankly, spend all of their time with tiny germ factories who are constantly getting themselves and everybody else sick, Hogan says.

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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. The failure rate was 74 percent.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. 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.