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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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American Indian Resource Center: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

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The organization is mainly funded through federal grants from the U.S. Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search. The program serves 750 students in 14 rural schools. departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services. How IT Donations Help Meet Their Mission.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens. But it is THEIR hard work.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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