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Dear [member_name_first], 
Happy New Year, friends and colleagues! We hope 2013 will bring you joy, peace, and fulfillment. January brings many interesting learning opportunities for your students. Why not have a New Year celebration right in class and teach your students the history of the celebration or how it is celebrated around the world? You can also teach your students about the different calendars used around the world or have them create one of their own.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed on the third Monday of this month and provides an excellent lead-in to Black History Month coming in February. This is a wonderful teaching opportunity and you can find numerous ideas and information on educationworld.com. Have a wonderful year teaching!
Five Misconceptions About Learning Disabilities
In the classroom, it starts simply -- sometimes with a struggle to sound out simple words; sometimes with trouble telling time, memorizing the times tables or learning left from right. It often ends simply, too: with a troubling statistic.
One in five of the American students identified as having a learning disability will walk away from their education. That's compared to a dropout rate of 8 percent in the general population.
Just as startling: Close to half of the secondary students currently identified as learning disabled are more than three grade levels behind in essential academic skills. And it's widespread. Roughly 2.4 million students -- that's more than the entire population of Houston, Texas -- are known to struggle with it.
"Race, culture, economic status -- LD doesn't discriminate. It's real and affects people of all ages," said Dr. Sheldon H. Horowitz of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, referring to learning disabilities by a common nickname, LD.
In the days ahead on the PBS News Hour broadcast, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser will take viewers into a public school in Boston for a better understanding of how this commonly misunderstood set of disorders is playing into the U.S. dropout crisis. Online, we'll explore the crossroads of learning disabilities and art, and we'll profile two young men -- a poet and a Harvard graduate student -- who, despite academic struggles, achieved stunning success.
Go here to read the complete article.
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Can Software Really Change
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'No Child' Law Whittled
Down by White House
nytimes.com
In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified. |
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