February 20, 2024
Via: U.S. Department of EducationThe Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released four new resources today with information for students, parents and families, and schools addressing civil rights of students with disabilities, as well as a data snapshot about education access for […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies
August 30, 2023
Via: ScienceDailyStudents with disabilities are often bullied and socially excluded in school at a far greater rate than their classmates. To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers developed an evidence-based, online professional development curriculum. The […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
July 25, 2023
Via: K-12 DiveA report on the survey results, which comes from the nationally representative NHIS household survey, does not examine why there’s been an increase in developmental disabilities diagnoses. However, the statistics align with other research and data collected by the federal […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
May 1, 2023
Via: EdSourceCalifornia’s lowest-performing and most-segregated student group is at risk of being left out of one of the state’s most important education reforms — the unprecedented investment in community schools. At both the February and April 2023 California Advisory Commission on […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
April 5, 2023
Via: eSchool NewsStates with formal policies around gifted and talented programs tend to identify more English learners and students with disabilities for those programs, according to a new study from NWEA, a not-for-profit research and educational services organization serving K-12 students. The […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
September 2, 2022
Via: eSchool NewsIn early 2020, 7.3 million students received special education services as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That’s 14% of K–12 students in public schools in the United States […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies
August 22, 2022
Via: eSchool NewsWhile it is now clear that the pandemic has had a significant impact on student learning – especially for historically underserved students – we are still discovering the most effective ways to help students recover. It turns out that summertime […]
May 23, 2022
Via: U.S. Department of EducationToday, the U.S. Department of Education will host a first-of-its-kind virtual summit, From Recovery to Thriving: Supporting Mental Health & Students with Disabilities, to highlight steps schools, colleges, and communities can take to support students with disabilities and students with […]
May 16, 2022
Via: U.S. Department of EducationToday, the U.S. Department of Education announced plans for a first-of-its-kind virtual summit, Recovery to Thriving: Supporting Mental Health & Students with Disabilities, to highlight steps schools, colleges and communities can take to support students with disabilities and students with […]
March 18, 2022
Via: U.S. Department of EducationToday, the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) released the notice inviting applications for the Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment (SWTCIE) demonstration project, aimed at increasing access for people with disabilities to jobs that pay good wages. […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
March 8, 2022
Via: eSchool NewsThe pandemic brought special education to the forefront of the dialogue about education, with the media focus mainly directed at sharing stories of students separated from the in-school supports that they had come to rely upon, and parents struggling to […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
February 11, 2022
Via: EdSourceThe pandemic has given us all a taste of forced isolation. We’ve seen how it can leave individuals feeling lonely, scared and depressed. Imagine if that was your permanent experience. For many students with disabilities, isolation is the standard practice, […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
October 22, 2021
Via: K-12 DiveDana Dickens likes it when her former students check in with her and when they do, several will ask if their old school — P.S. 76, the Asa Philip Randolph School for the Humanities in New York City — still […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
September 8, 2021
Via: Inside Higher EdFor us folks with one of the great invisible disabilities, hearing loss, captions are a godsend. Their significance becomes dramatically evident in their absence, as occurs when one of us, David, has told family members that he’s hearing a movie […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
August 26, 2021
Via: Inside Higher EdA bipartisan, bicameral bill introduced last month contains a proposal for a simple policy change that would make a considerable difference in how students with disabilities access postsecondary education. The Respond, Innovate, Succeed and Empower Act, or RISE Act, would […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
June 24, 2021
Via: eSchool NewsStudents with disabilities tend to show greater learning losses over the summer, and at times grow at academically higher rates than peers without disabilities, according to a new study showing detailed insight on academic growth among students with disabilities. The […]
Educational Stages, Secondary Education
October 6, 2020
Via: Education DiveSerious yet creative discussions about how best to formally measure students’ academic gains are taking place among educators and testing experts nationwide who acknowledge they are concerned about safely and equitably administering high stakes assessments this school year. The challenges […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
September 29, 2020
Via: Education DiveIn explaining why schools cannot phase-in in-person learning options based on a student’s “race, color or national origin,” OCR said such preferences would violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, schools may be required under Section […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
September 22, 2020
Via: Education DiveThe ADA forbids employers from retaliating against a person who has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by the federal law or because an individual has “made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, […]
Educational Forms, Informal learning
August 5, 2020
Via: Education DiveWhen the coronavirus pandemic forced school buildings to close in spring, educators and students had to embrace distance learning, transitioning to an entirely different and largely unfamiliar learning model practically overnight. Aside from presenting logistical and curricular headaches, this created […]