April 26, 2016
By: Christina A. Samuels
Source: edweek.org While intense political pressure has prompted several states to move away from shared tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards, a set of aligned assessments for students with severe cognitive disabilities has managed to maintain support. For the current school year, 2015-16, 27 states and the District of Columbia […]
April 26, 2016
By: Ann Schimke
Source: chalkbeat.org Kamia Bradley has so much going for her. The poised 17-year-old will graduate from Denver’s East High School next month and set off on a trip to Ghana with the school’s choir in June. Next fall, she plans to go to college in Denver or Arizona. She started flying lessons […]
April 26, 2016
By: Claudio Sanchez
Source: npr.org The way Daphne Patton remembers it, it was more money than she’d ever seen. It was 1990, and the Kentucky Supreme Court had declared the state’s school funding system unconstitutional. Within a year, a lot more money started flowing to the poorest school districts, a 50 to 60 percent increase […]
April 21, 2016
By: Alyson Klein
Source: blogs.edweek.org The toughest part of the assessment negotiation was on tests for students with severe cognitive disabilities. Under ESSA, states are only supposed to give those tests to 1 percent of their students overall, or about 10 percent of students in special education. Individual districts, however, can exceed that cap, and […]
April 20, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com State spending on adults with autism is dramatically higher than for children, according to a new analysis that may offer hints of what’s to come as more people on the spectrum grow up. In a study looking at per-person spending on autism services in California, researchers found that the state […]
April 20, 2016
By: Emily Deruy
Source: theatlantic.com The U.S. Education Secretary John King is frustrated by what he describes as the “ahistorical nature” of conversations today about how to integrate schools. Speaking at a Century Foundation panel on Tuesday to highlight two recent reports by the left-leaning think tank, King said that the need for “urgency” when […]
April 20, 2016
By: Christina A. Samuels
Source: edweek.org After years of steady decline, the nationwide count of school-age students covered under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has shown an upswing since the 2011-12 school year based on the most recently available federal data, driven by rapid growth in such disability categories as autism. The count of students […]
April 19, 2016
By: A.K. Whitney
Source: theatlantic.com The small Romanian town of Busteni is known for its skiing and stunning sights. But for some, the sight of 147 teenaged girls doing math in the main hall of the town’s Sports Hall earlier this April may be even more stunning. Aren’t girls supposed to hate math? Or at […]
April 19, 2016
By: Jane Meredith Adams
Source: edsource.org Already, the California Department of Education has said it doesn’t want to do it and doesn’t need to do it. But for the second time this year, a strongly worded report has called for the department to keep track of the $400 million a year that school districts are […]
April 19, 2016
By: Alex Hernandez
Source: edsurge.com My wife and I sat in the office of an educational psychologist as she explained the results of the IQ test she administered to our 9-year-old twin boys—they were each assessed across 10 subdomains. The twins’ score profiles were completely different, which, as fraternal twins, makes sense since they just […]