December 11, 2017
By: Tamy Luhby
Source: CNN Money Hazel Hoffman is only five years old, but her medical bills are already through the roof. The little girl suffers from a form of epilepsy that has sent her to the hospital multiple times with severe seizures. Her medications alone cost more than $1,500 a month. Hazel’s mother, Rachael, […]
December 10, 2017
By: Bruce Mills
Source: The Sumter Item Robots are slowly becoming an increasing part of our culture in the U.S., with much debate as to whether that’s good or bad. But with this robot — which has the appearance of a human and helps increase social engagement for children with autism — there’s mounting research […]
December 9, 2017
By: Rebecca Klein
Source: The Hechinger Report At the start of every school year, Jawanda Mast met with administrators at her daughter Rachel’s school. Every year, it was the same fight. Teachers wanted to separate Rachel ― who has Down syndrome ― from her peers without disabilities, and put her in a segregated class. Mast […]
December 8, 2017
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights—an agency with no policymaking power but with a potent megaphone—took on the complex issue of minority students and special education at a day-long session Friday. The name of the session, “The School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Intersections of Students of Color with Disabilities,” offered a […]
December 7, 2017
By: Peter Eden
Source: The Hechinger Report When most people think about diversity, they tend to mainly consider race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and nationality. I would like to believe that as a society most people agree that strengths accompany such diversity. That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to […]
December 6, 2017
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief: State education report cards are providing more timely and useful data that goes beyond assessment results to include information on school climate, teacher collaboration and family engagement, but further improvements — such as using simpler language and fewer acronyms — would make the reports even more accessible, according to […]
December 6, 2017
By: Neal Justin
Source: Disability Scoop LOS ANGELES — Freddie Highmore has seen the light. After four years of playing a murderer-in-training on A&E’s “Bates Motel,” the actor has slipped into the scrubs of Shaun Murphy, the most beloved TV character to carry a stethoscope since George Clooney’s Doug Ross was making rounds on “ER.” […]
December 5, 2017
By: Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy
Source: The New York Times CHICAGO — In the Chicago Public Schools system, enrollment has been declining, the budget is seldom enough, and three in four children come from low-income homes, a profile that would seemingly consign the district to low expectations. But students here appear to be learning […]
December 5, 2017
By: Moriah Balingit
Source: The Washington Post The United States tumbled in international rankings released Tuesday of reading skills among fourth-graders, raising warning flags about students’ ability to compete with international peers. The decline was especially precipitous for the lowest-performing students, a finding that suggests widening disparities in the U.S. education system. The United States has traditionally performed well […]
December 5, 2017
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop New federal data indicates that the high school graduation rate for students with disabilities is trending upward. The graduation rate for individuals with disabilities hit 65.5 percent for the 2015-2016 school year, according to figures released Monday from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. That’s up […]