July 11, 2018
By: Emily Medalen
Source: My ND Now Bismarck – A new program at YMCA’s in North Dakota is giving kids with disabilities a chance to do something they may have never thought they could. Emily Medalen has the story about how adaptive swimming is making sure everyone gets a chance to enjoy the water. Adaptive swimming […]
July 11, 2018
By: Lauren Barack
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief: The San Francisco Unified School District spent funds to train teachers around the Common Core math standards, even hiring substitute teachers so classrooms would be covered while educators went to workshops, according to EdSource. Dive Insight: Research shows that teachers are one the most important assets in a […]
July 11, 2018
By: Joe Meno
Source: Chicago Magazine On the first day of the Chicago Park District’s Special Education camp, no one showed. Anne Burke, 21-year-old physical education instructor, sat at her desk, staring at the peeling green paint on the walls. She had done everything she could to get the activity room at the West Pullman Park […]
July 9, 2018
By: Nanette Light, The Dallas Morning News/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop PLANO, Texas — Kyle Barton is a 28-year-old guy on the autism spectrum. But he lives like the diagnosis isn’t there. It’s not that he’s in denial; he just doesn’t like the autism label. He’s got other things on his mind, such as designing the latest […]
July 9, 2018
By: Shelby Mullis
Source: Chalkbeat Erik Catellier doesn’t expect perfection from his students. He expects greatness. That’s why Catellier, a language arts teacher at Center for Inquiry School 2, also wants students and their families to know about his own challenges: He is dyslexic. “I have never been able to be the sage on the stage, […]
July 6, 2018
By: Steve Baule
Source: eSchool News With another school shooting just down the road from me last month, it was sobering to see parents and community members leaving positive Post-it notes and sidewalk chalk messages to encourage children to walk into schools. We have been told school violence is caused by loss of civility in society, video games, pornography, […]
July 4, 2018
By: Justin Murphy
Source: USA Today Jaisaan Lovett graduated from University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men as the valedictorian last month, with a full scholarship to Clark Atlanta University. He is the school’s first black valedictorian and, as such, had some things to say in his speech. There was thanks for his parents, siblings and teachers and encouragement […]
July 3, 2018
By: Matt Zalaznick
Source: District Administration KOHLER, Wisconsin—When Superintendent Quynh Trueblood’s mind races in the middle of the night, she quickly finds herself using a mixing bowl and her oven. “When I bring in baked goods, people in the district know I couldn’t sleep,” says Trueblood, who has led the single-building Kohler Public Schools in Wisconsin […]
July 3, 2018
By: Matt Barnum
Source: Chalkbeat The U.S. Department of Education has halted an Obama-era rule designed to stop students of color from being over-identified as having a disability — and waded into a complicated research dispute in the process. The move, made late last week by Secretary Betsy DeVos, was widely expected and months in the making, but still […]
July 2, 2018
By: Stephen Sawchuk
Source: Education Week A federal district court has dismissed a legal challenge asserting that Michigan policymakers deprived Detroit students of a constitutional right to literacy. The case, Gary B. v. Snyder, based its claims in the U.S. Constitution rather than in state laws—the basis of most education-equity lawsuits—arguing that students in the Detroit schools were so […]