August 23, 2019
Source: Edutopia From seating arrangements to decorating your walls—and even to safeguarding the air you breathe—setting up a healthy, productive classroom environment can be hard work. Where to begin? We combed through our archives and consulted the research to identify some of the crucial issues and best practices. Test your knowledge—the answers may surprise you! […]
August 22, 2019
By: Alex Horton
Source: The Washington Post Engineers in World War I dug through the earth to build serpentine trenches borne from horrifically clear logic. If enemy soldiers ever breached it, the zigzagging pattern would prevent them from shooting in a straight line down the length of the trench — leaving only a relative few […]
August 21, 2019
By: Howard Blume
Source: Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Unified School District, which educates about 64,500 students with disabilities, will regain full control over programs that serve their special needs, after decades of costly court-ordered outside supervision, officials announced this week. The court-approved agreement will end a consent decree dating back to 1996, when […]
August 21, 2019
By: Cassie Walker Burke
Source: Chalkbeat Despite Chicago Public Schools reaping $198 million more for the coming school year for its $6.1 billion operating budget, the district will add just around 100 more special education case managers, social workers, and nurses to schools. Why Chicago’s 600-plus schools won’t immediately see a bigger surge in support […]
August 21, 2019
By: Shawna De La Rosa
Source: Education Dive To combat the risk of English learners (ELs) losing vocabulary over the summer months, New York City Public Schools conducts free summer programs for about 7,500 ELL students, Chalkbeat reports. Some of the 99 available summer programs are mandatory and others are voluntary, with options including cooking classes and field trips. […]
August 21, 2019
By: Ben Popken
Source: NBC News Sales of bulletproof backpacks have spiked almost 300 percent following a spate of school shootings and the recent attacks in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Yet, none of the backpacks currently on the market would have stopped a single rifle round coming from those gunmen. Bulletproof backpacks and backpack inserts for students […]
August 19, 2019
By: Lori Lizarraga
Source: 9News.com The number of students of color in the Aurora Public School’s (APS) Gifted and Talented(GT) program increased 17 percentage points last school year after a new program launched that changed the way gifted students are identified. Instead of waiting on teachers to recommend students for testing like before, APS tested every […]
August 19, 2019
By: Brenna Aversano
Source: Chalkbeat I don’t agree with the school’s evaluation of my daughter. What do I do? The school suspended my son for “being physical,” but he has a disability. Can you help? The teacher moved my child to a different type of classroom and didn’t tell me. Can she do that? These […]
August 19, 2019
By: Nara Schoenberg
Source: Disability Scoop Justin Pierce fought long and hard for a seat in this gleaming downtown office building. Pierce, who has Asperger’s syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, laid out the numbers: 328 applications, 135 rejection letters and 14 interviews, resulting finally — after almost five years — in his first professional […]
August 19, 2019
By: Jill Barshay
Source: The Hechinger Report Two quantitative studies find that black students are under-identified for disabilities at school. Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities. In 2016, 12 percent of black children across the nation received services at school for disabilities ranging […]