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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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Individualizing student instruction: Effects on literacy and learning. Elementary School Journal, 118(4), 579599. Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 30(2), 7378. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 49(2), 219232.

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Pennsylvania School Reports Student Growth in Mathematics Despite National Trends

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PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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schools collectively spend over $120 billion a year on special education. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia. 16 Reading difficulties also occur across other disabilities such as autism and ADHD. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 45 (3), 217-231. 20k+ per year). link] Fuchs, D.,

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HEARBUILDER Online Foundational Literacy Program Builds Basic Skills in Young Students

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HearBuilder provides an excellent way for parents, teachers and therapists to help students catch up and continue building skills, whether or not their school is doing in-person instruction.”. It was founded in 1986 by Sharon and Thomas Webber.

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A tale of two pilots

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In early 2010, I began the search for the best amplification system to implement in the classrooms of Veterans Memorial Elementary School to improve learning for students with hearing loss and impairments, learning disabilities, and English Language learners.

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Yes, Audiobooks Are Real Reading. Here Are the Best Ones for Kids.

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As a preschool and elementary school librarian, I’ll tell you that there’s nothing more foundational for literacy than time spent snuggled up with a trusted adult, soaking in a story, sharing the words, laughing (or crying) and learning to love the way the words unfold in a well-told tale.

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The Gates Foundation Is Awarding Millions to Solve America’s Algebra Problem. Will It Add Up?

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As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school. But after doing poorly on a math placement exam in middle school, he was placed in a math class for students with learning disabilities.

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