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| | The Iowa Department of Education (DE) was quoted recently as saying, "We really aren't looking at [3rd grade retention] as being punitive." The problem, of course, is that it doesn't matter how we as adults perceive retention. What matters is how the retained 8-year-olds perceive retention. And four decades of research is very clear that...
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| | Suppose one tries to debate the Science of Reading (SoR) and what it is precisely. They will likely be met by cognitive psychologists, parents, and educators who are insistent about the importance of neuroscience. Trying to understand how the brain works and why some children have learning disabilities has existed for decades. I'm staring at an old textbook special education teachers used: Alexander Bannatyne's 1971Language, Reading, and Learning Disabilities: Psychology, Neuropsychology, Diagnosis, and Remediation.
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| | State leaders, educators, and researchers joined the Ohio Education Association Monday to voice their opposition to a law that mandates a student be retained if they do not pass a third-grade reading test.
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| I live in a middle-class neighborhood (Temescal) in Oakland, California. I'm lucky enough to live very near two elementary schools. Park Day School is a private school, with tuition costs of roughly $20K/year. As far as I can tell Park Day is an excellent school, and some of my friends are sending their kids there. [...]