September 29, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org The board that oversees Dynamic Learning Maps, a testing and instructional system for students with severe cognitive disabilities, is raising the test’s price from $39 to $459 per student in Vermont—a move that may prompt the state to work with another test provider. Dynamic Learning Maps is one of two […]
September 29, 2016
By: Grace Tatter
Source: chalkbeat.org Pre-schoolers might be tiny, but they get suspended and expelled in big numbers. Now, a new study suggests that even for teachers who want to shift that dynamic, real change only happens with real training. The study, from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education, looked at what happened in Nashville […]
September 29, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com For the first time in more than three decades, the U.S. Supreme Court says it will consider how much educational benefit schools must provide students receiving services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The nation’s high court said Thursday that it will hear arguments in a matter known as […]
September 29, 2016
by: Meredith Kolodner
Source: hechingerreport.org When offices set up to assist people with disabilities become obstacles QUEENS, N.Y. — Wendy Thompson always knew she wanted her son to go to college, but she didn’t realize so many people would disagree. Her son was born with cerebral palsy, a disease that has him using a wheelchair, but […]
September 8, 2016
By Carmen Constantinescu & Christina A. Samuels
Source: edweek.org One of the foundations of federal special education law is that students with disabilities should be educated “to the maximum extent appropriate” with their peers who do not have disabilities. But some researchers have recently found that young children without disabilities are negatively affected when they’re […]
September 8, 2016
By Alex Zimmerman
Source: chalkbeat.org The conversation about infusing New York City schools with mental health services often centers around “community school” programs that pour extra funding into low-performing schools and provide social workers or health clinics. But what about schools that aren’t in those programs, yet could still benefit from access to mental health resources? […]
September 8, 2016
By Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com Being educated in an inclusive environment is a basic right for students with disabilities, according to a new set of guidelines from the United Nations. Governments must work together with people who have disabilities and other stakeholders to ensure that schooling is not just integrated, but actually inclusive. That’s the […]
September 8, 2016
By The Editorial Board
Source: centralmaine.com Maine is one of 49 states with a problem, and it will take a culture change to solve it. Maine, along with every other state not named Pennsylvania, reports an ongoing and growing shortage of special education teachers. In some ways, solutions mirror those for the same problem facing […]
September 8, 2016
By Mikhail Zinshteyn
Source: theatlantic.com Six million children are chronically absent, half of whom are enrolled at just 4 percent of the nation’s school districts. The precocious teen who’s too cool for school—earning high marks despite skipping class—is a pop-culture standard, the idealized version of an effortless youth for whom success comes easy. Too bad […]
September 8, 2016
By Joe Heim Source washingtonpost.com If showing up is half the battle, a lot of American schoolchildren are in trouble. A new analysis of data collected by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights from the 2013-14 school year shows that more than 6.5 million students, or about 13 percent in grades K-12, missed 15 […]