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Inside the unique STEM school for students with learning difficulties

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Despite high unemployment and underemployment for autistic adults, for example, more than a third of students with an autism spectrum disorder end up picking STEM majors, which often require a mix of hard and soft skills. A few years ago we introduced robotics to the high school. It was very successful.

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School Leaders Share the Best Ways to Get Your Product into Their Districts

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Kecia Ray, who once turned around a failing Tennessee school with a handshake, believes that companies should act as thought partners with the school districts they’re selling to. She coaches companies and school districts on how to establish these kinds of relationships. “In It’s both. If not, they’re just not a fit,” he said.

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17 Hero Awards finalists demonstrate their commitment to education

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For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation. With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students.

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10 ways COVID changed American schools

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We are the generation that spent important years of our lives in the COVID-19 lockdown, then released back into the world without the tools to cope, high school senior Adonte DaCosta told New York City Council members at a hearing last fall. Hes seen students grapple with questions like, Why do I have to show up in school?

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