February 11, 2019
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive Between ensuring more young children have school readiness skills and raising high school graduation rates, the middle school years are often overlooked in the push to improve education policy and practices. “Middle-level students are generally in the early stage of puberty and this affects the development of their brain, which […]
February 8, 2019
Source: ABC7 Chicago NEWTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts neighborhood is coming together to make sure one of its youngest residents has a voice. This silent approach is speaking volumes. Two years ago, Glenda and Raphi Savitz moved to the Newton neighborhood and soon welcomed their daughter Samantha, who was born deaf. “She was the first deaf […]
February 6, 2019
By: Alfredo Rubalcava
Source: The 74 Twenty years ago, a groundbreaking study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed the ubiquity of childhood trauma and its long-term impact on health and behavior. I was in my sixth year of college at the time, struggling to focus on my coursework as I recovered from years of […]
February 6, 2019
By: Emily Langhorne
Source: The 74 When Aaron Cuny and Will Stoetzer were thinking about how they wanted to structure their own D.C. charter school back in 2012, they kept returning to the same question: “When were we doing the best work for kids?” “For both of us, it came down to teaching in a small […]
February 6, 2019
By: Wendy Farr
Source: Edutopia Many students in special education struggle with language. Those diagnosed with special needs who are also English language learners (ELLs) have specific, unique needs. These dually classified learners are identified with a disability and are eligible for both special education and English as a second language or bilingual services. As teachers, […]
February 5, 2019
By: Edward C. Baig
Source: USA Today A person with a white cane, an individual sitting in a motorized wheelchair, a prosthetic arm, someone signing the word “deaf.” These are among the 13 variants of emoji to represent people with disabilities that were proposed last March by Apple to the global organization that adopts standards for emoji. […]
February 5, 2019
By: Rob Wile, The Miami Herald
Source: Disability Scoop MIAMI — When Valerie Herskowitz opened The Chocolate Spectrum in 2013, her goal was to find a meaningful job for her adult son, who had just graduated from high school but lives with autism. Making mail-order chocolates in her West Palm Beach home seemed like a good […]
February 4, 2019
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop More than 650 churches around the globe are set to welcome teens and adults with disabilities for a series of special proms all planned on a single night this month. Each of the events will feature a red carpet with “friendly paparazzi,” hair and makeup stations, shoe shining, limousine rides, […]
February 4, 2019
By: Jeanie Lindsay
Source: WFYI Students with disabilities perform better on tests when they spend more time in general education classrooms, according to a recent study on student inclusion from Indiana University. Keeping students with disabilities in general education classroom settings – or not – is an ongoing debate, but study co-author and director of the Center on […]
February 1, 2019
By: Stephen Noonoo
Source: EdSurge ROXBURY, Mass. — Last year, a student in Yvonne Steadman’s Kindergarten class began missing a lot of days. Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. Gillespie spoke with the girl’s mother and learned […]