Score Academy Blog

We did it again! The Score At The Top Learning Centers and Score Academy were recommended for renewal of their 5-Year accreditation by AdvancED.

Our schools and learning centers submitted to a rigorous re-accreditation process that involves internal and external review and evaluation. The AdvancED team, who visited each of our facilities, carefully considered how well we use a carefully crafted framework for continuous improvement.

Topics: News, Private-School

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Prior to the day-before-yesterday, school districts could – and often did, with the concurrence of the courts – argue that they were fulfilling the "free appropriate public education" (FAPE) provision in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) if a non-mainstreamed student with a disability was making progress toward educational goals, however minimal that progress might be.

Topics: News, Public Schools, Special Needs, Educational-Consulting

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Do you know what TED is? TED stands for “Technology, Entertainment, and Design,” it’s a yearly meeting of people across industries to share ideas and try to make the world a better place. The link below will take you to a web page with 10 great speeches from TED that teachers should watch. The speeches touch on ideas that effect kids, from teaching them about entrepreneurialism, to learning about food, and even how kids can teach themselves. In today’s changing environment, we need to start looking at new ideas, and change the way we look at things so that our kids can grow up to be successful.

Topics: News, Tutoring, Educational-Consulting

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