Teaching Parents of Kids with Disabilities to Fight Back – AcceliBEAT Weekly Round Up
July 6, 2018
We hope everyone had a wonderful time celebrating the 4th of July! In this week’s roundup, we start with a class called Partners in Policymaking in Minnesota where parents of children with developmental disabilities learn how to advocate for their child in the world of special education, health care, and government benefits. A former Oregon State Teacher of the Year awardee also shares his insights from a visit to a rural school in Bangladesh on what it truly means to be an inclusive and accessible school for special needs kids. In other news, many international teachers who were recruited were forced to leave the country due to the federal government refusing to extend their visas; a federal judge in Michigan ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee literacy; and many consider personalized learning as the next educational reform. All this and more in this week’s AcceliBEAT!
Teaching Parents of Kids with Disabilities to Fight Back
For parents, when a child is born with a significant disability, their world is turned upside down: Special education, health care, government benefits. To navigate it is confusing, difficult and exhausting.
DeVos Presses Pause on Special Education Rule, Highlighting Ongoing Discrimination Debate
The move, made late last week by Secretary Betsy DeVos, was widely expected and months in the making, but still drew the ire of advocates for students with disabilities.
Accelify Selected by Saint Louis Public Schools to Provide Medicaid Billing Software and Services
Saint Louis Public Schools awarded the contract through a competitive bid process and will be implementing Accelify’s industry-leading special education service tracking systems and more.
Mentoring Teachers Halfway Around the World in Special Education
Here, children with disabilities are thought of by many as “contagious.” There are no schools that will take them, meaning even fewer opportunities for a better life.
25 International Teachers Caught in Immigration Bureaucracy Forced to Leave Country Just Before Independence Day
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.
Reading Is Fundamental. But It’s Not a Fundamental Right, Court Rules
While sympathizing with the students who brought the lawsuit, a federal judge wrote that despite the well-documented problems of vermin-filled classrooms, outdated textbooks, and dysfunctional leadership in Detroit, the U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee literacy.
Is the New Education Reform Hiding in Plain Sight?
Amid all the bellowing about charters, school choice and vouchers, a potentially more revolutionary reform movement is bubbling up: personalized learning.
17 Ways to Help Students with ADHD Concentrate
Research shows that students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can concentrate better when they’re allowed to fidget.
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