Education Insights

Uplift Voices Selecting the best school for your child with special learning needs may seem difficult. Fortunately, your student can benefit from a range of school options. Before enrolling your student in a particular school, you want to ensure it can accommodate your child’s specific learning and environmental needs. These are some questions you might …

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Uplift Voices There are plenty of things to debate when it comes to education. Teacher pay, book banning, and school safety are all controversial subjects, but right up there on that list is the topic of the steadily growing number of charter schools. It seems like no matter where you live, there are 1, 2, …

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Uplift Voices School Open Enrollment –what is it and how can parents take advantage of it?  The term “open enrollment” gets thrown around a lot in education conversations in Texas. But what exactly is open enrollment? The truth is open enrollment means different things, depending on the school district. Texas does not make it simple!  …

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Uplift Voices Most parents are aware when “testing season” begins for their child at school.  Most states have standardized tests that students take each spring.  But some school districts are conducting additional assessments with their students to better gauge needed areas of learning as the school year begins.  Once such popular assessment is the MAP …

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Uplift Voices The meaning of transition, “the movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, concept, to another”, (Dictionary.com), occurs in many different forms for us all. An insect transitions from a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly, plants transition from seeds, water and sunshine to blooming flowers, construction projects on paper transition from concrete …

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Uplift Voices While summer is the perfect time for some light-hearted fiction reading, it’s also important for children to add some books to their list that will help them grow as a person and expand their thinking during those lazy summer days. Reading is the ideal way to introduce young minds to a range of …

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Uplift Voices While summer is the perfect time for some light-hearted fiction reading, it’s also important for teens to add some books to their list that will help them grow as a person and expand their thinking during those lazy summer days.  Some of the most important topics center around diversity, racism, social justice, and …

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