March 14, 2019
By: Clare Lombardo
Source: NPR Students with disabilities and disability rights advocates are among those angry — and feeling victimized — after the arrests in the college admissions and bribery scandal Tuesday. “Stories like this are why we continue to see backlash to disability rights laws,” Rebecca Cokley, director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for […]
March 13, 2019
By: Jane Porath
Source: The 74 I’ve taught math for 23 years, and that’s meant 23 Pi Days. Every year, people make puns about pizza pies and fruit pies and the number pi. Yet past the fun associated with March 14, I’ve found that Pi Day is an opportunity to help students learn how to solve […]
March 13, 2019
By: Stephen Noonoo
Source: EdSurge On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive, there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.” That tagline serves as something of a futuristic mission statement for the Boston-based company, which focuses on bringing brain-training video games to market and is seeking to produce the first […]
March 13, 2019
By: Sally Ho, Associated Press
Source: PBS A college entrance exam policy aimed at helping students with disabilities was exploited to enable cheating in what is being described as the biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted by federal authorities, according to court papers. At least 50 people were charged in the scheme, which included not only cheating on […]
March 12, 2019
By: Gabrielle Russon, Orlando Sentinel/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop ORLANDO, Fla. — Past the colorful playground where children splash at Aquatica Orlando, a new quiet room tries to mute the laughter and the music from the loudspeaker when everything becomes too overwhelming. A few feet away, one of several expanded map signs breaks down the rides, rating […]
March 12, 2019
By: Sarah D. Sparks
Source: Education Week From technology to textbooks to teacher training, school planning often has a lot of competing priorities. Some things—like the morning schedule, lunch and activity time, or the building’s physical environment—by their very banality often fall to the bottom of that priority list. Yet evidence is mounting that attending to […]
March 12, 2019
By: Caroline Bauman
Source: Chalkbeat In a room of brightly colored motivational posters and yoga mats, two middle school students sit across from one another in a circle of comfy blow-up chairs, glaring at each other, and talking through an argument of name-calling that almost escalated to fist-throwing. The boy, with his hoodie up and his […]
March 12, 2019
By: Josh Brown
Source: Education Week During a recent class, Ernesto propelled a volley of four-letter expletives, an eraser, and a chair at my unsuspecting student-teacher. This was the last straw: The teacher, who had been showing a lot of promise, decided to drop out of his credential program the next day. His exasperation was real; […]
March 11, 2019
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive The Trump administration is calling for a 10% reduction in federal funding for schools in fiscal 2020 and is recommending flat funding for Title I, special education and English learners. “The administration believes that we need to reduce the amount of discretionary funding,” James Blew, the department’s assistant secretary for […]
March 7, 2019
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop Ten years in, an initiative aimed at stomping out use of the word “retard” is evolving to embrace a new focus. Special Olympics and Best Buddies said this week that their “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign will segue into an effort dubbed “Spread the Word: Inclusion.” The […]