April 5, 2016
By: John Higgins
Source: disabilityscoop.com Children with autism spectrum disorder often have difficulty with social, emotional and communication skills, yet they vary greatly in the way they learn, think and solve problems. That wide range is reflected in a popular saying: “If you’ve met one kid with autism, you’ve met ONE kid with autism.” But […]
April 5, 2016
By: Andrew Simmons
Source: theatlantic.com I’d drawn a little tombstone on the board. I was in the middle of leading a class of 10th-grade English students through Piggy’s death scene in Lord of the Flies: the rock, the shattered conch, Piggy’s long fall, the red stuff flowing out, the twitching legs. The corners of her […]
April 5, 2016
By: Kortney Peagram
Source: npr.org As a bullying counselor, I spend many of my days helping students and teachers handle confrontational behavior — or, as the kids say, drama. But this was a peculiar situation. It started, as bullying often does, in a school hallway. E says she overhead A talking about her. (Editor’s note: […]
April 5, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org An estimated 1 in 68 8-year-olds have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the same prevalence rate that the agency found when it released a autism monitoring report in 2014. The most recent report is based on data that was collected in […]
April 5, 2016
By: Ross Brenneman
Source: edweek.org With rain cascading outside, groups of educators and administrators from seven states gathered in a hotel conference room in Tyson’s Corner, Va., last May to discuss teacher leadership. If everything went right, they would leave with plans to foster the concept on a statewide scale. The meeting in the Washington […]
April 4, 2016
By: Stephen Sawchuk
Source: edweek.org Last year, Kay Staley and Jessica Scherer, literacy coaches in theKettle Moraine district in Wisconsin, led groups of teachers in a book study on close reading—a complex and important skill emphasized in the Common Core State Standards. Participants were paired with a coach and peers as they wrestled with how to […]
April 4, 2016
By: Patrick Wall
Source: ny.chalkbeat.org About 420 New York City teachers and guidance counselors will have to reapply for their jobs this spring at six bottom-ranked schools that were given the grim label “out of time”by the state. The state-ordered rehiring process, which is rare for tenured teachers, could lead to major staff shakeups and […]
April 4, 2016
By: Elissa Nadworny
Source: npr.org It’s one of the most basic things in education: seeing the board. Research has shown, over and over again, that if you can’t see, you’re going to have an awfully hard time in school. And yet too often this simple issue gets overlooked. Just this year, research showed that children […]
April 4, 2016
By: Rita Price
Source: disabilityscoop.com COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Steffens can’t go on a family outing to a park. Or stay with out-of-town relatives. Or, if 11-year-old Andrew is along, even stop by the grocery. “We’ve withdrawn from the community,” said Andrew’s mom, Jamie Steffen. And home isn’t exactly a refuge. It sometimes feels more […]
March 31, 2016
By: Monica Disare
Source: ny.chalkbeat.org Diane Tinsely’s fourth-grade son dreams of becoming an astronaut. She worries that state tests in math and English might stifle his passion for math and science, rather than encourage him. That’s why when his classmates sit for state assessments next month, her son will not. And asked recently whether she […]