On Special Education
Explored the opportunities and obstacles educators encounter while serving students with special needs, including children with disabilities, gifted students, and those who are homeless or incarcerated. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: students with disabilities, gifted education, and homeless.
Families & the Community
Longtime Special Education Resource to Be Reborn as Part of New Center
Fact sheets and other information developed by the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, also known as NICHCY, will be preserved in a new center due to NICHCY's closure.
Professional Development
Webchat to Feature Advice on Linking Common Core and Standards-Based IEPs
Two educators with experience in professional development and special education will answer questions about the common core and standards-based individualized education programs.
Education Funding
Philadelphia Parents Flood State With Special Education Complaints
Advocacy organizations are hoping to draw attention to the effect of state funding cuts on the troubled district, which they say are putting students at risk.
Standards & Accountability
New Website Offers Common-Core Lesson Plans for Special Educators
The website Power Up WHAT WORKS connects technology and instructional strategies geared toward students with disabilities.
Special Education
Ed. Dept. Resolves Compliance Review With School District in New York
The U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights will monitor the Schenectady, N.Y., school district to ensure it does not over-identify minorities for special education services.
Assessment
Students With Disabilities and the Common Core: Challenges, Opportunities
A recent special report from Education Week explores the common core from the perspective of students with specific educational needs.
School & District Management
Performance of Students With Disabilities Hard to Gauge in School Accountability
Variability in state policy makes it difficult to compare states to one another, according to a report from the Institute of Education Sciences.
School & District Management
Students With Disabilities in Charter Schools the Focus of New Nonprofit
The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools plans to work with lawmakers and charter authorizers to improve access to charter schools for students with disabilities.
Special Education
Teachers of the Blind to Get Common Core Support Through Gates Grant
A $250,000 grant will help the Perkins School for the Blind create resources tied to the math and English/language arts standards adopted in 46 states and the District of Columbia.
Education
Transition Program For Students With Disabilities Victim of Shutdown
The government closure comes at a bad time for 40 students placed in government offices as part of a transition program that exposes them to the workplace.
School Choice & Charters
Study Examines Special Education Enrollment in New York City Charters
Marcus Winters, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says that charters are less likely to identify students as needing special education, and more likely to move students out of special programs.
Education Funding
Ed. Department Seeks Comments on Special Education Funding Rules
The proposed rules relate to mandates within the special education law on how much states and districts must spend on special services each year.
Education Funding
Special Ed. Grants Awarded for Data, Parent Assistance, School Climate
Among the grants is more than $20 million that used to provide technical assistance to parent centers and states.
Special Education
PBS Documentary Explores Life After School for Students With Autism
'Best Kept Secret' explores the postsecondary options available for six youth with severe autism in Newark, N.J.