Meredith Kolodner
Investigative Reporter at The Hechinger Report
Investigative reporter covering education @hechingerreport, D.C. native, Brooklyn convert, Liverpool F.C. fanatic. DM or email me [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
nj.com | Marina Villeneuve |Meredith Kolodner
This story about special education and inclusion was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. New Jersey students with disabilities are the least likely in the nation to spend their days surrounded by peers without disabilities. One underlying reason: a sprawling network of separate schools that allows districts to outsource educating them.
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3 weeks ago |
hechingerreport.org | Marina Villeneuve |Meredith Kolodner
New Jersey students with disabilities are the least likely in the nation to spend their days surrounded by peers without disabilities. One underlying reason: a sprawling network of separate schools that allows districts to outsource educating them. New Jersey has more than a hundred private schools, plus eight county-run districts specifically for students with disabilities.
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3 weeks ago |
miamiherald.com | Marina Villeneuve |Meredith Kolodner
New Jersey students with disabilities are the least likely in the nation to spend their days surrounded by peers without disabilities. One underlying reason: a sprawling network of separate schools that allows districts to outsource educating them. New Jersey has more than a hundred private schools, plus eight county-run districts specifically for students with disabilities.
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3 weeks ago |
nj.com | Meredith Kolodner |Marina Villeneuve
This story about special education classrooms was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Terri Joyce believed that her son belonged in a kindergarten classroom that included students with and without disabilities. The year before, as a 4-year-old, he happily spent afternoons in a child care program filled with typically developing children, without any extra support.
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hechingerreport.org | Meredith Kolodner |Marina Villeneuve
CINNAMINSON, N.J. — Terri Joyce believed that her son belonged in a kindergarten classroom that included students with and without disabilities. The year before, as a 4-year-old, he happily spent afternoons in a child care program filled with typically developing children, without any extra support. Like other kids his age, her son, who has Down syndrome, was learning about shapes and loved sitting on the rug listening to the teacher read books aloud.
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