The SAT will now be all digital. It’ll be a shorter (two hours instead of three), simpler and, “perhaps easier test.” (Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2022). Its reading passages will be shorter. Calculators will be allowed for all math tests. Watching this formerly purpose-driven, standardized test become ever more…

Here’s Tuesday Tip # 3 — Get rid of those acronyms! Use PLAIN ENGLISH! Here’s the First Set’s third Tuesday Tip — taken from my book, IEP and Section 504 Team Meetings… and the Law (available on Amazon and at Corwin). Enjoy! As a teacher, administrator, or other service provider…

Here’s Tuesday Tip # 2 — Why do we have 504 meetings? What is their purpose? These Tips are taken from my book, IEP and Section 504 Team Meetings… and the Law (available on Amazon and at Corwin). Enjoy! Corwin Tuesday Tip #2 Why do we have 504 team meetings…

Hello friends and colleagues, I created Tuesday Tips in 2021 and emailed them to subscribers each Tuesday for 13 weeks through MailerLite.com. If you’d like to subscribe (it’s FREE!), please let me know at miriam@schoollawpro.com. The Tips are designed for special and general educators, administrators, parents, and others who may…

As published in CORWIN Connect, November 4, 2021. Years ago, when my Boston law firm hired me, Bob, the hiring partner, gave me a piece of advice: Return phone calls the same day, even if just to say that you got the call and will be in touch later. It was excellent advice. Why? It helped me to…

TRUST — Build trust for schools, students, and parents because trust is the coin of the realm! I believe that TRUST is necessary for excellent education — trust among players — students, teachers, parents, administrators, tax payers, and others. Excellent education means that students learn all they can to become…