May 25, 2018
By: Brendan Borrell and Spectrum
Source: The Atlantic Kieran Barrett-Snyder was a star student at his high school on Long Island in New York. He had a gift for mathematics and science, and was accepted into all seven of the colleges he applied to. He decided on New York University, both because it has a strong […]
May 24, 2018
By: Lindsay Watts
Source: Fox 5 Raising a child who has a disability or learning disorder is difficult enough, but some parents say they are having to go to battle with their school district to get special education services. Even more troubling, research shows there is an unequal playing field for parents who don’t have an attorney. Read […]
May 24, 2018
By: Steve Burns
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Spalding High School student Jordan Smith wasn’t going to be able to go through a graduation ceremony with his classmates. Smith has autism and sensory issues with loud noises and crowds, and he constantly needs to move and walk, his teacher, Dana Jett, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday. […]
May 23, 2018
By: Rachel Cohen
Source: The Atlantic Many proposals for addressing school segregation seem pretty small, especially when compared to the scale and severity of the problem. Without the power of a court-ordered desegregation mandate, progress can feel extremely far off, if not altogether impossible. Some even believe—understandably though mistakenly—that no meaningful steps can be taken to […]
May 23, 2018
By: Selena Simmons-Duffin
Source: NPR Sometimes 11-year-old B. comes home from school in tears. Maybe she was taunted about her weight that day, called “ugly.” Or her so-called friends blocked her on their phones. Some nights she is too anxious to sleep alone and climbs into her mother’s bed. It’s just the two of them […]
May 23, 2018
By: Monica Disare
Source: Chalkbeat New York City’s schools chief expressed a fundamental critique of the school system on Wednesday, arguing that sorting students by ability is “antithetical” to public education. “I think the very fact that we’re talking about screening is an issue,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said at a press conference in the […]
May 23, 2018
By: Stacey Pusey
Source: eSchool News Too often, an “inclusive education” for students with complex support needs means helping them take part in a single class activity before they go off to a different classroom or focusing on a single learner while other similar students remain on the outside. Cheryl M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., an inclusive […]
May 23, 2018
By: Jenny Abamu
Source: Edsurge As testing comes to a close, the next big event for educators on the horizon is summer vacation. Yes, fill your schedule with cookouts and sunbathing, but also make time for some professional development this break. To help you stay sharp while getting that much-needed vitamin D, we have a […]
May 22, 2018
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop The U.S. government is falling short on a plan to dramatically increase hiring of people with intellectual disability and other conditions, according to a new report. Just 1 percent of the federal workforce had so-called “targeted disabilities” in 2015. That’s down from 1.05 percent in 2003 and “far below” […]
May 22, 2018
By: John Reinan
Source: Disability Scoop AUSTIN, Minn. — Seven-year-old Kayde Gustafson races into the YMCA gym, grabs a kid-size basketball and puts up a shot at one of the four hoops ringing the court. Then he goes to the next hoop. And the next. Always in the same order, always the first thing he […]