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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

ED Surge

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. That applies to K-12 as well: Districts should be vetting accessibility as part of their procurement process, says Barker, of CAST.

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

When I went to college [to study teaching], they tell you: ‘Here, this is the lesson plan for reading, for math, etc.,’ If you want to have an impact in the later grades, you need to start with K to 2. If you want to have an impact in the later grades, you need to start with K to 2,” he said. It was very rigorous.”.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes.

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