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Inclusion Alone Not Enough to Boost Special Education Results, Expert Says

July 27, 2018

By: Christina Samuels
Source:  Education Week The number of students with disabilities who spend most of their school day in regular classrooms has risen over the decades, and represented about 63 percent of school-age children and youth in the 2016-17 school year. But the academic outcomes for students with disabilities remains poor. And that’s because there’s […]

What Does Good Special Education Teaching Look Like?

July 25, 2018

By: Christina Samuels
Source:  Education Week A year ago, I wrote about a project designed to show what special education teachers should know and be able to do. The Council for Exceptional Children and the federally-supported Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform, also known as CEEDAR, came up with 22 “high-leverage practices” spread across four domains […]

Students Seeking Equal Access To Education May Find Federal Help Harder To Come By

July 25, 2018

By: Alexis Arnold
Source:  NPR During their daughter’s freshman year of high school, Paul and Joy Orton spent afternoons describing biology diagrams and illustrations to her. She is blind, and the materials given to her in class were not in a format she could read. Their daughter had no trouble understanding the material, but she was […]

Movie Theaters Subject to New Ada Requirements

July 24, 2018

By: Shaun Heasley
Source:  Disability Scoop Under new rules taking effect this summer, the nation’s movie theaters must do more to accommodate people with disabilities. Most theaters are now obligated to provide closed captioning and audio description for any digital movie that is distributed with such accessibility features. The services must be provided upon request at […]

‘Unofficial Suspensions’ and 10 Other Reasons Detroit’s Main District Is Overhauling Special Education

July 23, 2018

By: Koby Levin
Source:  Chalkbeat A transportation network that was so dysfunctional, students with special needs were left sitting at home for a bus that never came. An understaffed placement center with a single phone line tasked with orchestrating special education in the Michigan’s largest school district. A school assignment system that sometimes sent children to […]

New Gym Created to Help People with Special Needs Stay Fit

July 20, 2018

By: Tanisha Thomas, The Columbus Dispatch/TNS
Source:  Disability Scoop COLUMBUS, Ohio — During 25 years as an adapted physical education teacher, Peggy Mills noticed that when her students with disabilities graduated from school and entered adulthood it was difficult for them to find a place to work out. “There is not much out there afterwards to […]

How This Indiana District Realized Counselors Weren’t Spending Enough Time Counseling

July 20, 2018

By: Dylan Peers McCoy
Source:  Chalkbeat About a year ago, the counselors in the Beech Grove school district made a discovery: They were spending less than half of their time on counseling. Instead of meeting with students one-on-one or in small groups, they were spending most of their days on routine tasks, such as overseeing lunch, […]

Majority of States Fall Short on Special Education Compliance, Ed. Dept. Says

July 20, 2018

By: Christina Samuels
Source:  Education Week Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia need some help from the federal government in meeting the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, according to assessments of state performance released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education. The Education Department evaluates states annually on both compliance data—how well […]

Where Are Students at Risk? These Maps Tell the Story

July 19, 2018

By: Sarah D. Sparks
Source:  Education Week It can be easy to focus on poor grades or absenteeism when thinking about young people at risk, but that leaves out serious health and social issues that can affect students’ school lives. Analysts with the financial group WalletHub offer an interesting approach to gauging what students face in […]