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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

“Here at school, we’re trying to not put the pressure at all on the students, but I know our third grade teachers really feel it,” Knapp said. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Because it is just one assessment.” We have to do more.”

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

(Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.) The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said.

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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

The Hechinger Report

Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. Department of Education released guidance that clarified regularly sending a child home early was likely akin to a suspension, and should be reported by the school. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Around lunchtime, the middle school called: Come get your daughter, they told her. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. He was no longer enrolled, they said.