At-Risk and Special Needs Students

The challenges we face on a daily basis educating our large number of at-risk and special needs students can be overwhelming.  We are certainly not alone!  Teachers all across the country, especially in urban areas, share our experience but they, like we, are not comforted by sharing this problem.


According to a brief at  https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/.../scope-pub-using-technology-report.pdf  from 2014 research shows that more than 1 million U.S. high school students drop out each year because of personal and/or academic factors.  More importantly, the brief reviews, from over 70 studies, the successes of the approaches and uses of technology in high school.
I look forward to Hartford Going Blended and implementing the approach/uses set forth in Blended. I believe that our students will succeed with one-to-one computing opportunities and increased teacher support through a smaller student to teacher ratio.