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

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public school students have been diagnosed with a disability and receive services, according to the most recent data, so this debate over special education placement affects not only the academic prospects of students with disabilities but also the cost and structure of the whole educational system. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S.

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OPINION: Instead of panicking over test scores, let’s rethink how we measure learning and student success

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For decades, education policy has lurched from one test score panic to the next, diverting resources from what we know matters building students socioemotional skills, fostering strong relationships with teachers and peers and supporting enriched home environments that drive long-term success. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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OPINION: You can’t teach psychology without covering gender and sexuality, and you can’t teach history without covering racism

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America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. The College Board was right to insist on maintaining its standards, and yet the cost to students could have been extremely high. It stood firm in defense of the unit.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

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Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

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What is less clear, however, is how policymakers should address teachers’ biases and the consequences of these biases in schools. Other educational policies can challenge the structural forces directly contributing to racial biases in schools, such as reforming school discipline, equity-focused school finance reform and school integration.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

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She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

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Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.