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

The Hechinger Report

In an article published 30 years ago , Fuchs criticized the wisdom of always educating children with disabilities in the general education classroom. Instead, the studies focused on other outcomes like employment after high school. The articles Newman identified are barking up a different tree, he said by email.

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Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School, Too

Digital Promise

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Most of the coverage, however, overlooked another key finding from the same study: Boys were less likely to say their own gender gets top grades in school. This female advantage started in elementary school and continued until college.

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My Sister Taught Me to Have Empathy for Students in Middle School

ED Surge

When I was a student, the coverage of school shootings was hardly ever mentioned in my school. As an eighth-grader, I felt confused and devastated when the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened. The day after the shooting, I rehearsed what I would say to my group of sixth grade students.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well.

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Sitting for long periods affect on teens’ mental health, resumés for robots and more in the news roundup

Psych Learning Curve

Their findings have pushed some states and school districts to make big changes in how teachers are trained and students are taught. The current controversy about teaching reading: Comments for those left with questions after reading the new york times article. Depression and anxiety were most common, as well as panic issues.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Just because of the psychology of targets.”

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When fourth-grade problems include gunfire

The Hechinger Report

The poems these students at Samuel Powel Elementary School are writing mark the latest phase in their year-long project on gun violence. In March, Philadelphia elementary school teacher Joe Alberti gave his fourth-grade class a writing assignment: Compose a poem using the prompt, “Because there was a gun.”