What is School For? When making decisions about your child’s education, it can be helpful to explore your personal beliefs about the purpose of school.  

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California School Dashboard: How do students and student groups perform in your child’s school?

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Best Schools Lists are Meaningless- And Could Make Segregation Worse

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High Quality IEPs: Resources for learning about the IEP process.

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EdReports: Districts have agency to adopt curricula whether or not it is state approved.  Is your child’s curriculum aligned to grade level content and rigor?

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The Opportunity Myth: The importance of instruction.

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California’s Special Education Teacher Shortage: An important perspective when advocating for your child.   

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Too Much Downtime, Too Little Learning in Special Day Classes: The importance of questioning instruction and rigor in separate settings.

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School Suspensions are an Adult Behavior: Educators have the responsibility to teach behavior, not just provide consequences.

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California Needs Real Math Education, Not Gimmicks

California’s Math Misadventure is About to Go National

Disability, Invisitibility, and Equity in Mathematics

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Separating Fact From Fiction About the Science of Reading

Thinking Through Research and the Science of Reading

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The Way we Grade Students is Biased and Unsound: A Conversation on “Grading for Equity”: Grades are often unreliable and invalid.  A starting point for discussion.

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Reduce Children’s Test Anxiety with These Tips - And a Re-think of What Testing Means: Solid advice from expert researchers.