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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Her disability doesn’t mean she can’t analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension.

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OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutions

The Hechinger Report

Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. Better preparing candidates for licensure exams and rigorous academic standards. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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