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A
Judicial Checklist to Ensure that the Educational Needs of
Children and Youth in Foster Care are Being Addressed
(Permanency Planning for Children - April, 2005)
Asking the right questions is the first step.
A
Synthesis of Research on Reading (Nat'l Institute of Child
Health and Human Development)
The NICHD began to focus more on reading difficulties as it
became clear how extensive the reading problem was in the
general population.
ACLU
Sues School in Online Photo Controversy: Female Students Punished
for Racy MySpace Pictures
In Indianapolis, Indiana, two sophomore girls at Churubusco
High School were punished by the school district for posting
sexually suggestive photos on their MySpace pages.
Bullying
(Great Schools.net)
What you can do
to eliminate it.
College
Planning Q&A: 529s and Financial Aid
College
Planning Q&A: 529s as IRA Beneficiaries?
These are two good articles about how to use 529 plans in
planning for college and how to coordinate them with financial
aid applications and maximize the tax benefits. (Morningstar
Advisor)
Everyday
Mathematics (Teaching Tips.com)
A core curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade
6.
Independent
Education Evaluation (IEE) Issues: Letters to organizations,
attorney and parent:
California
Department of Education
Wisconsin
Dept. of Public Instruction
Letter
to Attorney
Letter
to Attorney 2
Redacted
Letter to Parent
Volunteer
Educational Advocate
Learning
English as Second Language (Education News)
The method I’ve suggested in previous articles works
for languages. We can adapt it to teaching English to immigrant
students even without knowing their native tongue.
Position
Statement on Student Grade Retention and Social Promotion
From National Assn. of School Psychologists: The highest retention
rates are found among poor, minority, inner-city youth. Research
indicates that neither grade retention nor social promotion
is an effective strategy for improving educational success.
Put
Reading First
The research building blocks for teaching children to read
- kindergarten through grade 3.
Researchers
Study Motivation in Class (USC News - 3/17/09)
What factors prompt young students to learn? That question
has been addressed over the past two years by members of a
group formed by two USC Rossier faculty members.
School
Selection for Students in Out-of-Home Care (Legal Center
for Foster Care)
This brief provides a framework for local homeless education
liaisons, educators, child welfare caseworkers, and other
child welfare advocates for assessing best interest when selecting
a school for students in out-of-home care. While the brief
focuses on students "awaiting foster care placement"
under the McKinney-Vento Act, it provides information relevant
to school selection and school stability for all children
and youth in out-of-home care.
Secrecy
101 (The Columbus Dispatch)
Patti's Comments: This article won a journalism
prize - exposed misuse of FERPA to cover up wrongdoings by
institutions. I hear about FERPA abuses by schools, districts,
state ed. depts. just about daily. I personally experienced
a problem with this in my home district of Birmingham, Michigan.
The reading recovery teacher refused to give me my daughter's
test scores and record. It was amazing to me how angry she
even got that I had the nerve to ask for the records. The
principal was present and did not correct her. I then followed
up in writing, and had an hour long call from a professional
in the district trying to "explain" the records
to me, because otherwise the information would be meaningless
to me. I explained that my husband is a special education
teacher, my sister is a special education teacher, my mom
a retired teacher, and that I was an attorney with a pretty
good knowledge of educational law. That did not matter - I
was still apparently not smart enough to understand my daughter's
records….and in this case they were not attempting to
hide anything… they just did not like that I wanted to
exercise my FERPA rights….Geesh!
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