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

ED Surge

Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds. Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

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.

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Switching majors is adding time and tuition to the already high cost of college

The Hechinger Report

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says. There are institutional measures that we have from the federal government, from the state, from our board of directors. Photo: Saquan Stimpson for The Hechinger Report.

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Colleges are withholding transcripts and degrees from millions over unpaid bills

The Hechinger Report

Then, just when he had polished off the credits required for a bachelor’s degree in management with a minor in psychology, Toro logged on to his university email account and found an unexpected notification from the bursar’s office. A coalition of advocacy groups in New York is encouraging a measure there like California’s.

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Thousands of families in special education limbo

The Hechinger Report

The process of assessing students for special education can be lengthy and often requires a barrage of assessments including classroom observations, a psychological evaluation and academic tests. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In

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

The Hechinger Report

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence. Meetings are where people come together in time and space.