Google and Seth MacFarlane have cut a distribution deal that will send fifty short two-minute episodes of a MacFarlane-created show called Cavalcade screaming around Google’s AdSense network. It’s an interesting use of the AdSense network and one that is likely to garner Google new content partners if it is successful.
Silicon Alley Insider notes that Kim [...]
Response to Therapeutic Intervention (RTI) is frequently mentioned in a variety of contexts and is often misapplied and misunderstood. Here are a collection of free resources that may help clarify the abundant confusion in this area. It is worth looking over these resources if RTI becomes a stumbling block to receiving appropriate services. [This guide [...]
A question that has come up with some frequency has been whether schools need to get parental consent before doing a Functional Behavioral Assessment ("FBA"). Many school districts have taken the position that an FBA is more an informal assessment, and therefore no consent is required. Schools have even more emphatically taken the position that [...]
Paris Hilton is using her MySpace blog to counter stories about her she says are not true. Paris writes that, “These stories have gotten out of control and I want to clear some things up.” In her latest post titled “Sick of Rumors,” Paris says a New York Post story that she tried to buy [...]
A subjective report filed by teachers on the character of students in Fairfax County Virginia has the potential to set off a firestorm in the district. Among the key findings of the report were that:
"black and Hispanic
students and special education students received lower marks than white
and Asian American students for demonstration of ’sound moral character
and [...]