Although more students with disabilities than ever are included in state testing programs, giving these students high quality assessments in the future, tests that measure how adept they are at mastering the Common Core State Standards seem to have an endless number of hurdles to overcome before students face them in the 2014-15 school year. Read Full Post >
States are incorporating strategies long associated with special education to ensure students grasp the associated content regardless of their learning style or disability. Read Full Post >
School districts would partner with universities or nonprofit organizations to create training programs for general education teachers who have a many high-functioning students with autism in their classes. Read Full Post >
Among the work going on now is a review of practices across the district that will take inventory of the very best of these, then share them, something that doesn't always happen in the frenetic pace of a school year. Read Full Post >
In at least two cases, parents of children with autism fitted their children with recording devices to capture what happens in school. In both cases, students were subjected to hearing inappropriate conversations. One student was recorded being spanked repeatedly. Read Full Post >
Even with its imperfections, NCLB has forced schools to focus students with disabilities, one group says. The House bills back down from that completely, a threat to those students going forward. Read Full Post >
While the school year hasn't quite started for thousands of students, many are in the throes of the school year. Some of the teachers and staff that work with students with disabilities will be learning along with their students, or already are. Read Full Post >
Read a special report about how online and virtual classes are growing and changing to work with disabilities. Read Full Post >
Summertime doesn't mean parents of children with disabilities can take a vacation from fighting for their children's education. Read Full Post >
The challenges of teaching children who are deaf or hard of hearing starts signed or spoken language start early and continue for years. Read Full Post >
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