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Committed to the study of learning disabilities through all stages of life, this journal provides the most current information on research, practice, theory, issues, and trends to broaden understanding and improve quality of life.
Learning Disabilities Association of America created the Healthy Children Project to raise awareness, promote policies and practices, and to build a nationwide network of LDA members to protect children’s health and reduce toxic exposures.
Sen. Udall, Senate Leaders Introduce Bill to Ban Chlorpyrifos Nationwide
MEDIA CONTACT: Maureen Swanson, Healthy Children Project Director, Learning Disabilities Association of America, 724.813.9684 Sen. Udall, Senate Leaders Introduce Bill to Ban Chlorpyrifos Nationwide Legislation endorsed by Learning Disabilities Association of America, one of the plaintiffs fighting Chlorpyrifos in the courts Washington, DC (March 28, 2019) – A day after President Trump’s EPA once again argued for delaying its own ban of chlorpyrifos in court, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) introduced the Protect Children, Families and Farmworkers from Nerve Agent Pesticides Act, legislation that would ban the dangerous chemical. The Learning Disabilities Association of America calls on Congress to act swiftly to pass… Read More »
LDA Applauds Bipartisan Bills to fully fund IDEA
For decades a LDA legislative priority has been the full funding of IDEA. LDA wants to recognize and applaud Senators Van Hollen (D-MD) and Roberts (R-KS) and Representative Huffman (D-CA), Senate and House bill sponsors, as well as their co-sponsors, who have just introduced bipartisan bills to fully fund the IDEA (S. 866 and H.R. 1878). Call or email your Senators and your Representative. Tell them you are a constituent and a member of the Learning Disabilities Association of America, and that you support these bills! If your senators and representative have not yet signed on as co-sponsors, ask them… Read More »
LDA Condemns Fraud in College Admissions Testing Accommodations
Pittsburgh, PA, March 12, 2019. Today the FBI announced an investigation, code-named Operation Varsity Blues, that uncovered a network of wealthy parents who paid thousands of dollars to a college-admissions private counselor to boost their children’s chances of gaining entrance into elite colleges. The U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling stating, “There can be no separate college admission for wealthy, and I will add there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.” The investigation also revealed that the counselor facilitated the cheating by instructing parents “to seek extended time for their children on college entrance exams, which included having the… Read More »
The Economic Policy Institute’s recent paper on teacher shortages states that the crisis is growing worse than ever in America. The real magnitude of the teacher shortage is even scarier when one considers the scarcity of credentialed teachers, more so in rural and low-income areas. One ray of hope comes from new school-university partnerships that aim to prepare future teachers by giving them real-life experience and, in the process, help fill funding gaps. One such example is the partnership between Ohio University and some of the state's school districts.
MultiBrief: Can partnerships between public schools, universities help address the teacher shortage?
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The Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) recent paper on teacher shortages states that the crisis is growing worse than ever in America. The real magnitude of the teacher shortage is even scarier when one considers the scarcity of credentialed teachers, more so in rural and low-income areas. One ray ...Why don't students ask more questions in school? The short answer is that most students believe it's their job to answer, not ask, questions. What's more, many think that asking questions might lead teachers to believe they're not smart or suggest to their peers that they're not cool. Others simply don't know how or what to ask.
How to Get Your Students to Ask More Good Questions
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Before students will ask more questions in class, teachers have to develop a questioning culture. See if expert Jackie Walsh's 5 strategies will work for you.Is Equal Education Reality? What's Your Experience? gr8.com/r/xYRqI/E/SU8vP
Is Equal Education Reality? What's Your Experience?
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This is the main mailing list for all news coming from the Learning Disabilities Association of America.A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that states establish their own eligibility criteria for determining the presence of a Specific Learning Disability (SLD). Allowing individual states to determine their own eligibility sets up a system in which a student can be found to have a specific learning disability and eligible for special education in one state, only to move to another state and found not eligible. Sometimes this even happens when a student moves to a different school. If this has been your experience, then LDA wants to hear from you. www.surveymonkey.com/r/PXV8P2H
Social-emotional learning has become a top implementation priority for districts, ed-tech companies and education researchers, and for good reason: Kids need it. With the rise in youth suicide rates, increased numbers of violent incidents in schools and the growing rate of American youth diagnosed with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, the social emotional instability of America's youth has, according to some experts, become a national crisis. Many are turning to SEL as a means to address this growing concern and spark conversation around sensitive or vulnerable topics
Not Enough Time to Teach Social-Emotional Learning? Try These 4 Easy Steps. - EdSurge News
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Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a top implementation priority for districts, ed-tech companies and education researchers, and for good ...
