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RTI: What is it?

  • rti
  • March 2, 2011
RTI, or response to intervention, most commonly refers to A) a method of determining whether or not a student is eligible for special education...
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Advocating for a disabled child: Reading Assessment Scores. Part 8b

  • Educational Assessment
  • July 23, 2011
The previous article, Advocating for a disabled child: Reading Assessment Scores Part 8a covered how to interpret raw scores, percentiles, GE, or...
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Advocating for a disabled child: Reading Assessment Scores. Part 8a

Considering you placed a request to receive the assessment results before the IEP, you will need to know how to read the results, and recognize...
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Advocating for a disabled child: Assessments. Part Seven

To start, an apology is offered for the delay in resuming the series. Now on to defining assessments and their significance to the IEP process. The...
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Advocating for a disabled child: Who is eligible for special education? Part two

Thepurpose, of this second article in the series "Advocating for a disabled child," is to inform parents, advocates, and school district...
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How to give your startup idea the sniff test

I have a certain friend who called me a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. “What if you could go to a web site and find all...
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Parents of disabled children sue California DOE

On April 23, 2012 two associations of parents of children with disabilities filed a Federal Lawsuit in Sacramento (Morgan Hill Concerned Parents...
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The game of cultural selection: culture, idea and truth

There are many Americans who just do not recognize the privilege to be born in the USA and to be enculturated in the traditions of the real...
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With great startups it’s all about the execution

  • startup execution
  • November 6, 2011
A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that’s where it ends. Ideas have to be implemented well to get the desired results....
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What helped this San Francisco family win their case

To read part one: Judge Slams San Francico for Delay and Stall tacticsContinued from part 1.In order to have a chance to even find a lawyer to...
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