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Daily Archives: 2 March 2010
Great Ebook Sites for AIM
I am facilitating a day workshop on Accessible Instructional Materials. The presenters were from OTAP. There were some sites they shared that are resources for ebooks. I thought I would share them with you.Enjoy!Lonknowledgerushfictionwisecrankylibrari… Continue reading
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Wanted: floating device
Posting may be light for a while. I'm drowning in a sea of paperwork and IEPs while simultaneously navigating the shark-infested waters that are Office Politics. I'm doing my best, but at the end of the day, whatever work isn't finished I just pretend doesn't exist. I close my eyes, plug my ears and sing LA LA LA LA THE STRESS ISN'T REAL IF I DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!!
Thankfully, in a little less than two weeks, I'll be able to come up out of the water and gasp for air. Spring Break will give me a while to catch my breath before going back under for the final push until June.
In the meantime, I'm trying to do things that make me happy… like giving Barney a new toy and watching him leap gleefully around the house with it. Or watching TV with Max. Or trying new recipes.
What do you do to stay happy?
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$250 Million Increase for IDEA in President’s Budget Cited By Member of Congress as “Budget Dust”
The House held its first education budget hearing of the year in the final week of February and grilled U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan about the Administration’s decision to basically “freeze” funding for IDEA. In the President’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011, the Administration recommended only a $250million dollar increase for IDEA, just enough to keep the level at 17% of IDEA full funding. As CEC members know well, what is commonly called “IDEA full funding” originated in 1975 when Congress enacted P.L. 94-142 and promised that the federal government would pay 40% of each state’s “excess cost” of educating… Continue reading
Evidence-based education in Head Start?
Isabel Sawhill and Jon Baron published an editorial in Education Week calling for a new approach to the venerable Head Start program, one founded on evidence about effectiveness. They argue that in the wake of the discouraging Head Start Impact Study reported by US Department of Health & Human Services, it’s time to bring research [...] Continue reading
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