July 2, 2018
By: Brett Bigham
Source: Education Week For the poor in Bangladesh, there is no hope of attending school; families struggle to buy rice, let alone pay for tuition. These families live in such poverty that the children must work or spend their days collecting sticks and leaves for their parents to burn for heat. Here, children […]
July 1, 2018
By: Laura Pappano
Source: The Washington Post DALLAS — In 1997, a sixth-grader at Dan D. Rogers Elementary School set a three-alarm fire in the library. Erin and Sean Jett, whose house is so near they hear the school bell ring, did not have school-aged children at the time. But it left an impression. “My child will […]
June 29, 2018
By: Joseph Shapiro
Source: NPR At a graduation ceremony in a hotel ballroom outside Minneapolis, 28 men and women got their certificates — for learning how to raise a bit of hell. Most graduates of the Partners in Policymaking class are the mothers of young children with developmental disabilities. They’ve been meeting at this hotel one weekend a […]
June 28, 2018
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop Without a big change, advocates are warning that a recently-established vehicle to help people with disabilities save money without risking their government benefits could be unsustainable. ABLE programs across the country desperately need an infusion of more account holders, according to a letter sent to congressional leadership this month from over 150 […]
June 28, 2018
By: Youki Terada
Source: Edutopia Research shows that students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can concentrate better when they’re allowed to fidget. But what if this becomes a distraction for the rest of the class? We asked our readers about this issue on Facebook and received hundreds of comments from teachers, parents, and students with great ideas for letting students quietly […]
June 28, 2018
By: Mario Koran
Source: The 74 Just days before the July 4th holiday, 25 international teachers whom Baltimore City Public Schools recruited to fill hard-to-staff positions will be forced to leave the country after the federal government refused to extend their work visas before they expired. Months ago, the school district applied to extend the international […]
June 26, 2018
By: Sarah Schwartz
Source: Education Week Assistive technology—tools designed for disabled users—can give all students the opportunity to develop their strengths and share their skills, said Luis Perez, the incoming president of the Inclusive Learning Network for the International Society for Technology in Education, during a Tuesday keynote session at the group’s annual conference being held […]
June 25, 2018
By: Susan Snyder, Philly.com/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop PHILADELPHIA — Emily Scott has been part of the West Chester University family for a long time. In her first year of life, West Chester students learning about child development regularly visited Emily and her twin sister, Elizabeth, at the family home in East Goshen Township. At age 3, […]
June 25, 2018
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week For years, Brooklyn resident Rebecca Kostyuchenko and her family members have visited her daughter Jacqueline’s school every day. They have to make that visit in order to carry Jacqueline, who has a mobility impairment, up and down stairs to classrooms, to the gymnasium, and to the cafeteria. Her neighborhood school is […]
June 25, 2018
By: Debra Goldschimdt and Susan Scutti
Source: CNN The US Food and Drug Administration approved a cannabis-based drug for the first time, the agency said Monday. Epidiolex was recommended for approval by an advisory committee in April, and the agency had until this week to make a decision. The twice-daily oral solution is approved for use […]