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How to Help Students Without Being a Savior

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Alex Shevrin Venet ( transcript ): Sponsored by NoRedInk and The Modern Classrooms Project This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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OPINION: A solution exists to the growing shortage of special education providers

The Hechinger Report

Growing numbers of students need special education services. Yet there are fewer qualified clinicians who are willing and able to work in school buildings full time. There is a new solution that exists, one that many other sectors have embraced: A hybrid, more flexible workforce. The number of students deemed to need special education services increased by nearly a million students over the last decade, and it now makes up 15 percent of all public school enrollments.

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Columbia and N.Y.U. would lose $327 million in tax breaks under proposal

The Hechinger Report

New York state lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday that would eliminate enormous property tax breaks for Columbia University and New York University, which have expanded to become among New York City’s top 10 largest private property owners. This story also appeared in The New York Times The bills would require the private universities to start paying full annual property taxes and for that money to be redistributed to the City University of New York, the largest urban public university

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho —The moms seated at the conference table on Election Day were worried. They had good reason: Their poll watchers at voting sites — grange halls on dirt roads, community centers hardly larger than a bungalow— suggested things were not going their way. This story also appeared in Vanity Fair There were no formal exit polls conducted in West Bonner County, where the school district covers 781 square miles over timbered hills and crystalline lakes in the north Idaho panhandle.