The Atlantic: “Child poverty is growing, and investing in programs that begin at the earliest stages of life and last through entry into kindergarten could be a good way to limit its consequences.”
Disability Scoop: “Federal law guarantees students with disabilities a free appropriate public education, but precisely what that means isn’t well defined.”
Education Writers Association: “Veteran education reporters from the Detroit Free Press and The Washington Post discuss Betsy DeVos, the billionaire school choice advocate nominated by President-elect Donald Trump.”
The Hechinger Report: “[Teacher candidates] need to know about mental illness, poverty training and assistance. They need to know what poverty does to kids’ brains—the state of being in fight or flight.”
Houston Chronicle: “From Beaumont to El Paso, school districts facing pressure to lower their special education numbers have decided to do it by shutting out thousands of English Language Learners.”
Huffington Post: “Data shows that just having a school-based police officer makes it more likely that a child will be referred to law enforcement for even minor infractions—potentially pushing kids into the justice system for misdeeds like vandalism, more generally known as the school-to-prison pipeline.”
National Public Radio: “There’s a growing body of research on the value and importance of high-quality early education programs—especially for disadvantaged kids.”
New York Magazine: “‘Centering the voices of black women and girls moves us toward a deeper understanding about their lived experiences, and forces us to confront the routine (and often ignored) victimization, exploitation and discrimination that occur in their lives.’”
The New York Times: “The changes do not remove what many see as the most fundamental problem: [the Violent and Disruptive Incident Reporting system] is based on self-reported information, and given that the reporting has consequences, school administrators might have an interest in keeping certain episodes to themselves.”
Southern California Public Radio: “We want to build the schools to be the hub of those communities. ... They’re, in most cases, right down the street from us. Unless you have kids, the schools’ neighbors don’t really engage otherwise. That [school] should be an anchor for those communities and for those parents.”
The Washington Post: “School segregation is primarily a problem of neighborhoods, not schools. Schools are segregated because the neighborhoods in which they are located are segregated.”
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