Educational Links 8/25/18

The Answers to 5 Questions Frequently Asked by New Chromebook Users

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/the-answers-to-5-questions-frequently.html

THREE GOOD RESOURCES ON SCHOOL DRESS CODES FOR STUDENTS

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/08/22/three-good-resources-on-school-dress-codes-for-students/

California community colleges urged to plan now for fewer students in remedial courses

https://edsource.org/2018/california-community-colleges-urged-to-plan-now-for-fewer-students-in-remedial-courses/600905

New Google Classroom: Add Your Resources to the About Link

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/08/22/new-google-classroom-add-resources-about/

Alternative Consequences

http://www.boystowntraining.org/alternative-consequences.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blogs&utm_content=Alternative_Consequences

Educators, students file lawsuit against Education Department, DeVos

https://www.cta.org/About-CTA/News-Room/Press-Releases/2018/08/20180823.aspx

Discipline Policies That Illegally Punish and Exclude Students with Disabilities Must Stop

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/08/discipline-policies-that-illegally.html

Disconcerting and problematic, this case is, on one level, a microcosm for the public education sector at large: A recent report by the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools found that students with disabilities continue to be disciplined roughly twice as often as their peers without disabilities.