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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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Elementary School Journal, 118(4), 579599. Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 30(2), 7378. Efficacy of a reading intervention for upper elementary students with reading disabilities. Francis (Eds.), Connor, C.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development.

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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.

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But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. This is as true in Okanogan County, Washington, as it is anywhere nationwide. Kennedy Jr.s

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‘School Choice’ Causes Confusion for Families. Can Edtech Companies Help?

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But opponents counter that they starve public schools of money and lower the quality of education in the country, also often pointing to the use of this system to evade school integration in Southern states after the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

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Online PD helps teachers respond to bullying

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While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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Dyslexia teachers using technology to help kids love reading

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Leslie Patterson said she knew nothing about dyslexia when she first became an elementary school teacher. Using Bookshare , which, with 480,000 books is the world’s largest digital library, Patterson is helping her students access books they can read, using their eyes and ears, by listening to and seeing highlighted text.

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5 ways we develop SEL in our students

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was first spoken during the height of gang wars in Los Angeles, when I was a new speech language pathologist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More than 30 years later, I now work at a 700-student elementary school in Washington state and I have a caseload of 50 students consisting of varying disabilities.