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Why the Feds Still Fall Short on Special Education Funding

January 10, 2020

By: Evie Blad
Source:  Education Week When Congress passed a broad law on educating children with disabilities in 1975, it agreed to kick in federal dollars to help cover the excess costs of meeting students’ individual education needs. In the time since, federal funding for what’s now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has […]

The Game That Can Spot Preschoolers at Risk for Reading Deficits

January 9, 2020

By: Jackie Mader
Source:  The Hechinger Report What if a short digital game for young children could help lower the high school drop out rate? That’s a long-range goal of a new effort by a team from Boston Children’s Hospital in collaboration with Florida State University, which has developed a 15 to 20-minute game that tests […]

Ashland Middle School Students Create Innovative Approach to Real-World Problem

January 8, 2020

By: Tiffney Lopez
Source:  WOWK-TV ASHLAND, Ky. (WOWK) — A group of eighth graders at Ashland Middle School like to see if they can find problems, and then they fix them. Emily Aliff is talking about their latest invention and how it came about. Aliff says they experienced something some live with every day – a […]

U.S. Schools See Surge in Number of Arabic- and Chinese-Speaking English-Learners

January 7, 2020

By: Corey Mitchell
Source:  Education Week Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the numbers for several other languages are surging. Overall, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Somali were the top five languages spoken […]

‘Not Just Tummy Time’: A Preschool Professionalizes ECE

January 7, 2020

By: Nora Fleming
Source:  Edutopia At 7 o’clock on the dot every Monday morning, Sherietta Anderson and her fellow master teachers start making their rounds through classrooms at Educare New Orleans, meticulously checking that everything is in order for the upcoming week. Anderson confirms that all materials are ready for the lesson plans she approved the […]

Preschool at Missouri State Helps Deaf, Hard of Hearing Students Gain Literacy Skills

January 5, 2020

By: Claudette Riley
Source:  Springfield News-Leader Several times a week, Rebecca Mettler makes a 92-mile round-trip to Springfield to take her 4-year-old son to preschool. “That’s how important it is for us,” she said. “We came and visited before he was 2. We got him on the list.”… Mettler, a journalist who lives in Sarcoxie, worried […]

12-Year-Old Tampa Student Designs Video Game for Visually Impaired Kids

January 2, 2020

By: Monique Welch
Source:  Tampa Bay Times VALRICO — The instructions were to think outside the box and create a project different than the typical science fair poster. “I emphasized the importance of not doing a volcano and making a mess,” said Darcy Fak, the sixth-grade earth science teacher at Navigator Academy of Leadership. “I really […]

Same Classroom, Different Salaries: Special Education Pre-K Teachers Earn Dramatically Less Than Their General Education Co-Teachers

January 2, 2020

By: Christina Veiga
Source:  Chalkbeat Inside classroom No. 12 at Brooklyn’s HeartShare Taranto preschool, children play side-by-side with blocks, puzzles, or at a pretend kitchen each day. Roughly half are students with disabilities, including physical impairments, autism, and speech delays. The others are typically developing children. The Bensonhurst program is one of hundreds of community-based organizations […]