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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: students with disabilities, gifted education, and homeless.
School Climate & Safety
Students With Disabilities, Health Issues Bullied More Often
Students with disabilities or health problems are more likely to be the target of bullies than their classmates, according to a new study, but they were also slightly more likely to have attacked someone else at school or tell someone they would hurt them
School & District Management
Review of IDEA Shows More Use of Response to Intervention
A new study evaluates many ways in which the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is working, and not. The study finds that more schools are using response to intervention, but fewer schools are able to address parents' complaints.
Special Education
'Serving All Kids, No Exceptions'
By combining response to intervention and positive behavioral interventions and supports and destroying any opportunity for a student with disabilities to be segregated from other students, along with a host of other measures, a University of Kansas professor says all students can benefit, and achieve.
Special Education
Report Finds Progress, Problems for Students With Learning Disabilities
A new report says too few students with learning disabilities graduate from high school, and some groups are still disproportionately identified as having a learning disability, but early intervention strategies appear to be reducing the number of students overall who are identified as having a learning disability.
Special Education
21 Years After ADA, Census Reveals Some Startling Statistics
While the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved the lives of many with disabilities, consider observing the 21-year anniversary of this law by reflecting on some ways their lives still could be improved.
Education Funding
Bill Would Boost Federal Spending on Students with Disabilities
A new bill proposes the federal government live up to its promise to pay 40 percent of the costs of educating students with disabilities.
School Climate & Safety
Majority of Special Ed. Students in Texas Suspended, Expelled
Students with disabilities, in particular an emotional disturbance, are especially likely to be suspended or expelled from Texas middle and high schools, a new study finds.
Special Education
Feds Cite D.C., Others for Problems in Special Education
For five years running, the District of Columbia has failed to uphold parts of the federal law that governs the education of students with disabilities.
Special Education
Report Reveals Ways Brain Science Could Improve Special Ed.
How are findings from neuroscience being applied to special education? A new policy analysis discusses the research bridging the two fields.
Education Funding
The Special Education Spending Debate Goes On
Though it might not be polite to say, one former superintendent says school districts must find ways to teach students with disabilities more efficiently.
Special Education
Parents, Take a Break From the Summer Today
Start preparing for the school year for a child with learning disabilities—now.
School Choice & Charters
Tax Credit Becomes Law for NC Parents of Pupils with Special Needs
The law gives parents of children with disabilities a tax credit of up to $6,000 for educational expenses including private school tuition, therapy, and tutoring.
Education Funding
'No' From Feds on Special Ed. Cuts in Iowa
Iowa joins South Carolina and Oregon in being denied requests to cut special education spending.
Education Funding
Feds Threaten S.C. With $111 Million Cut to Special Ed.
South Carolina may lose about $111 million in federal special education money for cutting spending on students with disabilities for the last two years without an OK from the U.S. Department of Education.