June 17, 2019
By: Erica Pearson
Source: Star Tribune Summer is supposed to be the best part of the year for a kid, right? Months of fun in the sun, backyard campouts, visits to the neighborhood pool, enjoying more downtime. But for children who struggle without the structure of school, summer can be an anxious time. Every season […]
June 17, 2019
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop Kohl’s is introducing sensory-friendly and adaptive clothing for kids, becoming the latest retailer to offer up apparel designed to meet the needs of people with various disabilities. The department store said this month that it’s rolling out a range of adaptive clothing options as part of its three largest […]
June 14, 2019
By: Ann Schimke
Source: Chalkbeat A decade ago young children who missed key developmental milestones — like walking or talking — too often fell through the cracks in northern Colorado’s Grand and Jackson counties. Some were never screened for delays as babies or toddlers. Others were screened, but not referred to the right place for […]
June 14, 2019
By: Amelia Harper
Source: Education Dive Maurice J. Elias, a professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Social-Emotional Learning Lab, shared on Edutopia a two-step process for reducing chronic absenteeism. The first step involves identifying and overcoming barriers to school attendance and the second is creating a school environment that encourages […]
June 12, 2019
By: Lauren Barack
Source: Education Dive Diane Brauner, manager of the Paths to Technology website at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, is excited about new educational apps designed for visually impaired students, such as braille displays that work with touchscreens to support reading and writing skills, she wrote recently in eSchoolNews. Other tools also take advantage […]
June 12, 2019
By: Naaz Modan
Source: Education Dive As U.S. academic achievement lags behind competitor nations, school districts face a number of challenges — and quality teacher recruitment and retention remains among top concerns. A 2018 Gallup poll found more than half of superintendents (61%) chose teacher retention as the greatest struggle from a list of challenges facing school districts. This […]
June 11, 2019
By: Heidi Stevens
Source: Disability Scoop Thursday was the last day of school at Beye Elementary, and 6-year-old Matias Best didn’t want to go. Matias is on the autism spectrum, and transitions can be a challenge. Transitioning from the school year to summer break felt a little daunting that day, and so, he declared, he […]
June 10, 2019
By: Michael Melia, Jeff Amy and Larry Fenn
Source: AP With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd’s homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone? On the tiny screen, she switches between web pages for research projects, losing track of tabs whenever friends send messages. […]
June 10, 2019
By: Jill Barshay
Source: The Hechinger Report Amounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported […]
June 10, 2019
By: Emily Tate
Source: EdSurge To surveil or not to surveil? That is the question U.S. schools are grappling with as they face mounting pressure to better protect students against the gamut of growing safety concerns, from school shootings to bullying and self-harm. Increasingly, many schools and states are deciding that the answer is to surveil—through social […]