April 11, 2016
By: Tony Pugh
Source: disabilityscoop.com It took five years for Dawlton McMillan to finish high school in Holly Springs, Miss. The former special education student had learning disabilities in reading and writing that required her to take extra courses, outside speech therapy and alternative exit exams in order to complete high school. Along the way, […]
April 8, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org Testing for students in special education got a lot air time—little of it resulting in real action yet—during Thursday morning’s discussion by a panel of negotiators trying to work out rules on assessments and funding issues under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Quick refresher: ESSA allows states to use alternate tests for 1 percent […]
April 7, 2016
By: Suzanne Banas
Source: edsurge.com At South Miami Middle Community School, our mission is to improve upon students’ abilities to read, write, comprehend, and articulate through an integrated curriculum, which will prepare all students for the diversely multicultural and technological world of the twenty-first century. But one question in particular has come up again and again—how […]
April 7, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org Michael Yudin, the assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services, is leaving the U.S. Department of Education April 30. Yudin has been with the Education Department since 2010 in a variety of capacities. He became acting secretary of the office of special education and rehabilitative Services, or OSERS, in August […]
April 7, 2016
By: Arianna Prothero
Source: edweek.org For active-duty military families juggling frequent moves and long deployments that may take a parent away for more than a year at a time, home schooling appears to be growing in popularity as a means of providing stability in their children’s education. “When there’s so much change, there’s value and power […]
April 6, 2016
By: Emily Richmond
Source: theatlantic.com PITTSFIELD, N.H.—Pushing up the cuffs of his plaid shirt and adjusting his glasses, the ninth-grader Colton Gaudette looks across the small classroom conference table. “Welcome to my student-led conference,” he says. “Thank you for inviting me,” answers his mother, Terry Gaudette, sitting next to Colton’s adviser and biology teacher. This […]
April 6, 2016
By: Jessica Terrell
Source: civilbeat.com The Department of Education is looking to increase the amount of time that special education students spend in classrooms with their general education peers — an area where the state continues to lag far behind the national average. Studies show that special education students tend to do better when they interact more […]
April 6, 2016
By: Moriah Balingit
Source: washingtonpost.com Less than 10 percent of students at Frederick Douglass Elementary in Leesburg were eating school breakfast last school year, and educators noticed the impact: Students were fidgety and cranky and sometimes had to leave class to see the school nurse because of stomach aches. About one third of the Loudoun […]
April 6, 2016
By: Joanie Terrizzi
Source: ny.chalkbeat.org Last week, when I asked fourth and fifth graders at my school how they felt when they thought about the test, they responded, “stressed,” “pressured,” “anxious,” “angry,” “butterflies in my stomach,” “fear of the unknown,” and “really, really, really, really nervous.” So I was grateful that we were about to […]
April 5, 2016
By: Kyle Stokes
Source: scpr.org Los Angeles school officials are changing the way that they screen students for special education services – a move partially motivated by financial pressures but also aimed at righting inequities in the way some students are educated. Los Angeles Unified officials are now putting some special education referrals through extra […]