eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

As these four principals look back at 2016, they recall the most important ed tech lesson they learned this year—and look forward to inspiring their staff and students anew in 2017. Cox Middle School has embarked on a transformational journey to turn around the school. Technology Usage Lowers Discipline Referrals.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But schools are stretched thin for mental health staff, with as many as 100,000 more mental health professionals needed around the country. A school district in Virginia even constructed a middle school building with extra glass in the hopes that more natural light will serve as a palliative.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. Sure, centers in elementary school made sense, but I wasn’t quite certain at first whether a middle school biology class could pull it off. Amanda Lotz is a life sciences teacher at at Southside Middle School in New Hampshire.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? Let me know! BGerwitz12 on Twitter.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process. Amanda Lotz knows all too well how difficult it can be to engage middle school students in life sciences, especially those with emotional disorders, behavioral issues, or learning disabilities.

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