December 20, 2017
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: The Washington Post The conventional wisdom about 21st century skills holds that students need to master the STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and math — and learn to code as well because that’s where the jobs are. It turns out that is a gross simplification of what students need to know […]
December 19, 2017
By: Peg Grafwallner
Source: Edutopia Special education teachers are expected to do quite a lot: Assess students’ skills to determine their needs and then develop teaching plans; organize and assign activities that are specific to each student’s abilities; teach and mentor students as a class, in small groups, and one-on-one; and write individualized education plans […]
December 16, 2017
By: Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader
Source: The Hechinger Report BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. For two years, she was unemployed. Eventually, her father was able to use his connections at Bowdoin College to get her a job working in a kitchen. […]
December 15, 2017
By: Laura Isensee
Source: Houston Public Media The Texas Education Commissioner has taken his first steps to relax some testing and accountability rules in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. In a notice to school districts Thursday, Commissioner Mike Morath announced that students in the fifth and eighth grades won’t be automatically held back if they […]
December 14, 2017
By: Alex Zimmerman
Source: Chalkbeat Terell Richards languished at the public middle school in Queens for students with severe disabilities that he attended a few years ago. It wasn’t just that he found the work so easy he sometimes fell asleep in the back of the classroom, his sister, Kya, said. It was also that […]
December 14, 2017
By: Youki Terada
Source: Edutopia Every year, we hope, researchers gain new insights into what works in the classroom—and what doesn’t. In 2017, a group of scientists made the case for why social and emotional learning is essential in schools. We learned that negative stereotypes can discourage students of color from going to college, and […]
December 14, 2017
By: Judith Bliss
Source: eSchool News Dyslexia is the most common disability affecting young learners today, with 5 to 20 percent of the student population affected, say some studies. Dyslexic learners struggle in school and often do not receive the help they need due to a lack of educator and parental awareness. In order to reverse […]
December 13, 2017
By: Richard Fossey and Franklin Foil
Source: The Advocate On June 16, Gov. John Bel Edwards signed House Bill 79, which bans Louisiana school districts from paddling students with disabilities. More than 100,000 students in Louisiana’s public schools have been identified as disabled under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or Section 504, and all […]
December 12, 2017
By: Sam Wood
Source: Disability Scoop PHILADELPHIA — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is pairing with an Australian biopharmaceutical company in what some advocates say could be the first major effort in the United States to study the effects of medical marijuana on children with autism. Athena Zuppa, the director of the hospital’s Center for Clinical […]
December 11, 2017
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop Nine months after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right of students with disabilities to a free appropriate public education, the U.S. Department of Education is shedding light on the decision’s implications. In a new nine-page question and answer document addressing the high court’s opinion in Endrew F. v. […]