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How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

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Specifically, this has allowed us to improve in closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities over the last several years and to provide our teachers with more tailored professional learning for support. We adjusted our resources, and this year, 96 percent of K-5 students met typical growth in English language arts.

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Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit?

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Asian and white students are much more likely to complete one of the math and English pathways, considered the college-prep route, while Native students, English learners, and students with disabilities are more likely to have no graduation pathway. Now over 89% do. We learned that’s not true,”Tilley said.)

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States Agree About How Schools Should Use AI. Are They Also Ignoring Civil Rights?

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In March, Nevada published guidance counseling schools in the state about how to incorporate AI responsibly. At least 11 of these documents also touch on the promise of AI in making education more accessible for students with disabilities and for English learners, the nonprofit found.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

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This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

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Brick and mortar charter schools have been known to use questionable (and unethical) recruitment techniques and “counseling out” poor standardized test-takers. Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels. In fact, charter schools have been accused of re-segregation.

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37 predictions about edtech’s impact in 2023

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Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. I think administrators at more schools across the county will lean into non-traditional supports for students including mentoring, behavioral counseling and socialization exercises for students. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

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Such incidents disproportionately harm students who are already vulnerable, such as students with disabilities, students of color, LGBTQ students, English language learners and students who are undocumented or whose families are undocumented, Laird noted. They should use that data to support and not to penalize students.”

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