Recruitment & Retention Retention Is the Missing Ingredient in Special Education Staffing
Districts are exploring ways to keep special educators in the needed role. This story is part of our enterprise reporting project on special education.
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Keeping personal and professional information separate can be difficult for teachers.
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Teaching Profession Opinion How Two Teachers Helped Me Weave a Dream
A journalist and author dedicates her novel to two of her high school English teachers.
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Teaching Profession Massages, Mammograms, and Dental Care: How One School Saves Teachers' Time
Some schools are trying to ease that burden in creative ways.
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School & District Management Virginia School Board Restores Confederate Names to 2 Schools
The vote reverses a decision made in 2020 when dozens of schools changed their names.
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Curriculum Outdoor Learning: The Ultimate Student Engagement Hack?
Outdoor learning offers a host of evidence-based benefits for students.
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Retention Is the Missing Ingredient in Special Education Staffing
Many special education teachers switch to other teaching positions. Districts are exploring ways to keep them in the needed role.
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What Happens for High Schoolers Who Need More Than 4 Years?
Districts work to serve older students longer than four years to plan for a changing career world.
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‘A Unique Challenge’: What English Learners With Disabilities Need
From language barriers to bilingual education program lockouts, dual-identified students face unique challenges researchers say.
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The Pros and Cons of AI in Special Education
AI can make special educators' jobs easier by handling paperwork and serving as an adaptive tool. But there are privacy and other concerns.
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As another testing season approaches, a familiar question weighs heavily on our minds: who are these tests serving?
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