Accommodations
Read more about the supports that allow students with disabilities to learn at their full potential
Special Education
Accommodations in Oregon: A Juried Process
Students with disabilities often take state tests with accommodations, so that the exams more accurately measure what they know and can do.
Special Education
All Means All
Under orders to test every student with a disability, states are pondering how to do so fairly and accurately.
Special Education
Enveloping Expectations
Federal law demands that schools teach the same content to children they wrote off a quarter-century ago.
Special Education
Court Ponders 'Reasonable Accommodations' Under ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 continues to funnel a steady flow of appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, the justices heard oral arguments in a case that will help define what constitutes a "reasonable accommodation" for workers with disabilities.
Education
Testing Experts Urge Caution on Assessment Accommodations
Testing experts are building a case against giving teachers and principals wide discretion over what accommodations to offer test-takers with disabilities or limited proficiency in English.
Education
NAEP Will Defer Special Accommodations for the Disabled
Washington
Efforts to include more special-needs students in large-scale testing programs ran into a setback this month, when the governing board that oversees the "nation's report card" voted not to allow any nonstandard administrations of the exam.
Efforts to include more special-needs students in large-scale testing programs ran into a setback this month, when the governing board that oversees the "nation's report card" voted not to allow any nonstandard administrations of the exam.