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Coach Len Boudreaux works with Sam Millikan, left, and Keitra Douglas at Gwinnett Heat wheelchair-basketball practice at the Monarch School in Duluth, Ga.
—David Walter Banks for Education Week

Guidance on Athletics and Spec. Ed. Students Draws Sharply Split Response

Disability-rights advocates welcome new federal guidance on special education students and sports, while critics say federal officials are pushing costly new mandates. (February 5, 2013)

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As the numbers of minority children entering the nation's schools grow, experts say that helping them achieve greater academic success will be crucial to future U.S. economic competitiveness.
July 15, 2013 - AP
While the Supreme Court decision leaves the door open to race-based admissions, it could make it harder for schools to justify racial preferences in court.
June 25, 2013 - Education Week
The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled in favor of a 6-year-old whose school barred her from using the girl's bathroom at school because she is transgender.
June 24, 2013 - McClatchy-Tribune
Elementary school is a good setting for educators to abandon gender stereotypes and labels of their students, writes Sheryl Boris-Schacter.
June 19, 2013 - Education Week
May 21, 2013 - Education Week
States look to raise the entry bar on teaching programs, but worry about the prospects for black and Latino candidates.
May 7, 2013 - Education Week
April 23, 2013 - Education Week
Concerns about the well-being of children of gay parents came up as the Supreme Court heard arguments on same-sex marriage.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
At the expense of creation, our classrooms have become too focused on celebrating the lives of others, writes Stephen R. Herr.
March 26, 2013 - Education Week
The common-core standards may be paving the way for more uniform definitions for deciding who gets ELL services.
February 26, 2013 - Education Week

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