A Bold Proposal for Taking Mental Health Seriously in Schools – AcceliBEAT Weekly Round Up
April 20, 2018
This week’s featured article highlights the urgent need for schools to implement proactive strategies concerning student behaviors related to mental health issues. Big ed policy news this week include disability legal experts encouraging parents to go for more challenging IEP goals and objectives for their child due to last year’s Supreme Court’s ruling that calls for school districts to provide appropriately ambitious programs. More good news for disability rights is that a new law will put greater scrutiny on individuals who manage Social Security payments for individuals with disabilities. In other news, a blind art teacher nurtures her blind students’ creative projects, new research sheds light on a gap between rising pre-K enrollment and program quality, and emerging media technologies may support different types of learning environments. All this and more in this week’s AcceliBEAT!
A Bold Proposal for Taking Mental Health Seriously in Schools
Up until now, many schools have treated students with mental-health issues reactively, rather than proactively.
Supreme Court Ruling Alters IEP Landscape
Disability legal experts say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling will set the stage for stronger goals and higher expectations.
Trump Signs Bill Adding Protections for Social Security, SSI Recipients
Individuals tasked with handling Social Security payments for people with disabilities will be subject to greater scrutiny under a new law signed last week.
As Enrollment in Public Pre-K Surges, Quality Fails to Keep Pace
Enrollment for pre-K is growing, but not fast enough, and it shouldn’t come at the expense of quality.
Ed. Dept. Policing ESSA Rules on Portfolio Assessments for Students with Disabilities
The Ed. Dept. has started informing a small group of states that they will have to make changes to the way they test students with severe cognitive disabilities, because of accountability changes.
Blind Woman Teaches Art to Blind Students in the Bronx
Veteran art teacher Jessica Jones lost her sight from Type 1 Diabetes, and she has been teaching blind students in the Bronx for 12 years now.
Ten Problems Teachers Did Not Have to Deal with a Decade Ago
We are living in an era in which more teachers are speaking their minds in public louder than ever in modern terms.
Can Today’s New Technologies Totally Revamp Learning?
Housing and services for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities have become harder to find and less affordable throughout Arizona, an “unintended consequence” of the recent minimum wage increase.
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