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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.

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As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. Fast forward to this school year. I find comfort in metaphors. Our daughter was one of 3.7

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How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools

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One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year.

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Schools Are Using Voice Technology to Teach Reading. Is It Helping?

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Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

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Even while schools are stuck dealing with deep challenges, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding is running its course. Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream. For some teachers and school leaders, it can feel like an onslaught. For the past couple of years, unrelenting change has come fast.

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As Public Skepticism of College Grows, Students Become Savvier Customers

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At an information session about applying to college held at Central High School at the start of this school year, students listened as Tory Park, a career and college readiness coordinator, gave advice on how to narrow down a list of where to apply. PAUL, Minn. — I’ll probably just do it for my parents’ sake.”

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Subscriber Special: June Special Add-on with School License

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June 4th-6th: Buy any K-8 School License get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased (Please note: new orders only; domestic or freight-forwarders only) Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

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HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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