June 14, 2016
By: Meredith Kolodner
Source: disabilityscoop.com Richard was one of the brightest kids in his high school class. His parents figured college was the next step, but that dream was nearly cut short in his first semester. Miscommunication with a professor resulted in an argument over handing in a paper he wasn’t finished with. Richard stormed in […]
June 14, 2016
By: Courtney Perkes
Source: disabilityscoop.com When Ruth Russi was born with Down syndrome in 1959, her parents were told she would die before her fifth birthday. By the time Ruth turned 50, John and June Russi of Costa Mesa, Calif., began to prepare for her outliving them. But as she aged, Ruth’s behavior changed. She […]
June 14, 2016
By: Anya Kamenetz
Source: npr.org When Caitlin Cheney was living at a campground in Washington state with her mother and younger sister, she would do her homework by the light of the portable toilets, sitting on the concrete. She maintained nearly straight A’s even though she had to hitchhike to school, making it there an […]
June 14, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: blogs.edweek.org The Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind, promised the creation of a center aimed at reducing illiteracy among students in special education (among other provisions affecting students with disabilities). Now we have an better idea of the scope and purpose of that center, thanks to a […]
June 10, 2016
By: Audrey Cleo Yap
Source: theatlantic.com Earlier this spring, the students at Palms Middle School in Los Angeles gathered in their school’s auditorium, their eyes fixed on the stage before them as aHamilton-inspired rap battle played out. “My ancestors had a Central Asian persuasion, came to India in what was called the Aryan invasion. This […]
June 10, 2016
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: washingtonpost.com A new report that surveys curriculum nationally and reaches thousands of K-12 and college instructors as well as workplace supervisors and employees has some bad news about the Common Core State Standards: Many people in education and the workplace don’t think some of the English Language Arts and math standards […]
June 10, 2016
By: Lilian Mongeau
Source: hechingerreport.org Tuffy Helgeson, 31, is one of the country’s youngest fluent speakers of Nakoda, his native language. He’d like to change that. In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, […]
June 10, 2016
By: Blake Farmer
Source: npr.org It’s the afternoon lull at Bongo Java East, and five students from KIPP Academy are tripping over each other behind the counter of this hip Nashville coffee joint, trying to show off what they’ve learned. They’re grinding espresso beans. They’re packing the grounds. They’re steaming milk. “Let’s see how this […]
June 10, 2016
By: Michelle R. Davis
Source: edweek.org At Pittsburgh’s Avonworth School District educators are experimenting with a new way to test digital tools they might buy for their classrooms. In the past, the approach to such an ed-tech pilot project might have involved an administrator or teacher hearing a buzz about an app or software, trying […]
June 9, 2016
By: Alex Zimmerman
Source: chalkbeat.org Jason Rosenbaum knew his high school had a problem: Students often arrived years behind in reading and the school struggled to get them to graduation. He tried tweaking the curriculum, but not much changed. So when New York City’s education department required Juan Morel Campos Secondary School to adopt a […]