March 15, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com More than 1 in 7 American children have a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but prevalence is far from steady across the country. At the high end, 21.5 percent of kids in Arkansas and Kentucky have one of the conditions. […]
March 15, 2016
By: Daarel Burnette II
Source: edweek.org After years of pent-up frustration among state officials over what they’ve considered to be a heavy and prescriptive federal role in education policy, some states are bolting to overhaul their accountability systems in ways that could have lasting impact on schools’ priorities. Sparked by new flexibility promised under the Every […]
March 14, 2016
By: Monica Disare
Source: theatlantic.com A few years ago, if a student arrived at an Ascend elementary school wearing the wrong color socks, she was sent to the dean’s office to stay until a family member brought a new pair. Now, the school office is stocked with extra socks. Students without them can pick up […]
March 14, 2016
By: Anya Kamenetz
Source: npr.org Few public high schools in the country have attracted as much shine as Pathways in Technology Early College High School — P-TECH — in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A large classroom at the school is hung with blown-up color posters of President Obama, smiling with students on a visit to the […]
March 14, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com Parents and others who provide care for people with disabilities could be eligible for a tax credit under a new proposal. A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week would allow family members who care for older people and those with disabilities to receive up to $3,000 […]
March 11, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com In the vast majority of cases, a new analysis finds that parents and siblings of those with Down syndrome report positive feelings about having a family member with the chromosomal disorder. Among families surveyed, researchers found that in 87 percent of cases individuals with Down syndrome, their parents and siblings […]
March 11, 2016
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: washingtonpost.com I’ve published a few posts on the new U.S. K-12 education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which Congress passed last December to replace the badly flawed No Child Left Behind. Some have pointed out potential problems with the bill — “The successor to NCLB has, it turns out, problems […]
March 10, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com Preschool teachers may be able to play a significant role in helping kids with autism improve their language and social skills, a new study suggests. Using a play-based intervention called Joint Attention Symbolic Play Engagement and Regulation, or JASPER, teachers in several preschool classrooms for children with autism were able to […]
March 10, 2016
By: Nichole Dobo
Source: hechingerreport.org AUSTIN, Tex. – School districts lack information they need to get the best deals on education technology, according to leaders of a new nonprofit organization that was announced Tuesday at a large education conference here. Harold O. Levy, executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and a former New […]
March 10, 2016
By: Joy Resmovits
Source: latimes.com Some students with disabilities in Los Angeles County are getting shortchanged by the bureaucracy that is supposed to ensure they receive a good education, according to a consultant’s report discussed on Tuesday. Los Angeles County’s Office of Education’s Division of Special Education “has reached a point of crisis by almost every […]