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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Colleen Collins, school director at CICS West Belden, works with students.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

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They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens. But what if public schools raised their own money through decentralized finance and the crypto-economy, maybe so the rest of us didn’t have to support these institutions by paying taxes?

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

Eventually, the two found housing outside the Temecula Valley Unified School District her son had attended for years. The district introduced programs in the last few years to help schools find more students experiencing housing instability and connect them with assistance. Chalkbeat journalist Lori Higgins contributed to this article.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments.

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It’s not about sex: Teaching young children where babies come from (and other stuff)

The Hechinger Report

And even if an elementary school teacher got administrator approval and parent support to offer sexual health classes, he or she would find that curricular resources for the early grades are severely lacking. Rights, Respect, Responsibility was developed by Advocates for Youth and includes free lesson plans for all of the elementary grades.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

Hillsdale boasts a national network of affiliated charter schools, and one of its former professors helped revise South Dakota’s social studies standards along the lines of the 1776 Curriculum. Pennridge leaders declined to respond to questions for this article.) We lost eight of 18 classroom teachers in one summer.”

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

The Hechinger Report

So far, the settlements have brought new staff to Supai, and the BIE had to reconstitute the school board. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. A new principal pledged to stay longer than a school year. I wanted to make a difference, he said.

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