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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Daniel, an instructional technology coach for McFarland Unified School District. In all fairness, it was pretty sweet. Looking for a way to introduce music to young learners?

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Reading Is Visually Unnatural—Here's How to Help Students Who Struggle

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EdSurge talked with Taylor about what makes reading a visually unnatural activity, why reading inefficiency isn’t a learning disability, and how early intervention can increase fluency and foster joy in reading. They can model it and they can hear it and they can coach students. There are a couple of components.

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Is The SAT Secure? What the College Board Is Doing to Respond to the Admissions Scandal

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The incident has raised questions about the fairness and validity of the admissions process as a whole, and specifically about whether the SAT is as secure as it should be. When I came to College Board six years ago, we talked to a lot of groups representing students with learning disabilities.

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School?

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If the team does not win, it is the coach’s fault, and the coach is fired. Unfortunately, many school districts never find the Coach Carters or Erin Gruwells who bring such happy endings. My children are being cheated because they are not given the same experiences as their counterparts in other schools, and that’s not fair.

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