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Legal Risks and Obligations for Schools Using AI Tutors

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But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. Many educators and administrators feel unprepared to manage these legal and ethical challenges effectively. Since 1990, the ADA has helped universities improve access for students with disabilities.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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How K-12 Districts Can Navigate Compliance, Staffing, and Instructional Risk in 2025

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Oversight for Special Education is shifting to the Department of Health and Human Services, raising urgent questions about IDEA enforcement and IEP accountability. Legal obligations, such as ensuring appropriate services for students with disabilities or English learners, remain intact. Domestic pipelines are shrinking too.

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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

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It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself). What is ChatGPT? See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

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This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts.

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The purpose of a K-12 education: Who decides and how do we get there?

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8), and moral character traits such as “honesty, kindness, integrity, [and] ethics” (p. All of these are important; the question is one of priorities. Instead, the study reported, today’s parents would like to see their children develop practical skills “for both life and career” (p.

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A cautious approach to using AI in education

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Algorithmic bias cropping up in the hiring process prompted guidance from the Justice Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help businesses and government agencies keep their AI-empowered employment practices in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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