April 23, 2019
By: Erin Einhorn, Lori Higgins
Source: Chalkbeat The little girl had missed 47 days of school before Amanda Bowman hopped into her white Jeep SUV to go find her. Bowman, the attendance agent at Earhart Elementary-Middle School in Southwest Detroit, had been working with the third-grader’s family for weeks. She’d convened a meeting in early February […]
April 23, 2019
By: Carolyn Phenicie
Source: The 74 Buried among the hundreds of pages of federal K-12 education law is the “unsafe school choice option,” a provision that allows students who were victims of a violent incident at school, or who attended “persistently dangerous” schools, to transfer to any other public school in their district, including charters. Such […]
April 22, 2019
By: Andrew Ujifusa
Source: Education Week The last few weeks have shown just how much interest there can be in presidential budget proposals for education. Much of the attention has focused on proposals that tend never to get traction in Congress, like the proposed elimination of Special Olympics aid that Trump quickly backed away from. But what […]
April 20, 2019
By: Emma Kate Fittes
Source: Indianapolis Star There are five Noblesville East Middle School students in teacher Blair Morwick’s sixth grade classroom who traditionally would have been labeled “special education.” They have what are considered to be severe cognitive disabilities but sit next to students of all abilities, including gifted students, and learn the same things, just […]
April 18, 2019
By: Jennifer Herseim
Source: District Administration Parents and advocates in several states have encouraged legislation requiring the use of cameras in special ed classrooms. If children are unable to report abuse because of a disability, the recordings can assist in investigations of suspected maltreatment. So far, Texas, Georgia and West Virginia have enacted legislation that either requires or allows the use […]
April 17, 2019
By: Kunal Sindhu
Source: Education Week Before becoming a physician, I worked as a middle school science teacher in Newark, N.J. My students were constantly forced to navigate immense social challenges, including poverty and violence. However, I often found that the biggest threat to their educational success, especially those with asthma, was their inability to regularly […]
April 16, 2019
By: Matt Barnum
Source: Chalkbeat A few years after South Carolina expanded access to preschool programs, students’ test scores in elementary school jumped. But the increase contained something of a mystery. Only students from low-income families were eligible for the new pre-kindergarten program. Scores, though, climbed across the board, including for students from more affluent families. […]
April 16, 2019
By: Laura McKenna
Source: Edutopia Almost 30 years ago, I walked into my class of 12 acutely disabled teenagers in a District 75 school in the South Bronx feeling young and nervous. I had no formal training as a special education teacher, just a master’s degree in political theory and an emergency teaching certificate from New […]
April 15, 2019
By: Travis Crum
Source: The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON – Children of all abilities and needs will have a place to hunt Easter eggs, after two local organizations teamed up to make it a reality. The inaugural “Eggciting Egg Hunt” will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, at the all-inclusive playground at St. Cloud Commons, […]
April 15, 2019
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop New federal figures indicate that autism prevalence among young children is on the rise. The number of 4-year-olds with the developmental disorder increased from 1 in 75 children in 2010 to 1 in 59 kids in 2014, according to data published late last week in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s […]