Young people with disabilities in the United States are guaranteed the right to a free and appropriate public education at federally funded schools. But with shifts and cuts at the Education ...

While the recent months have been a flurry of news around education, we’re becoming distracted from the very real challenges students are facing in the classroom. Because when speaking with parents, ...

Laura Lemle watched how some teachers didn’t always understand how to teach her daughter, who has nonverbal learning disability. Some were incredibly empathetic, others were not. Special education ...

As a teacher, you want all of your students to reach their academic potential. However, not everyone learns at the same pace or in the same way. That means you need to be prepared to provide ...

North Texas school districts must find creative ways to fulfill the needs to the special education students while state ...

In 1990, the Americans With Disabilities Act gave students with disabilities the right to reasonable accommodations in higher education, but many colleges were not structured with disabled students in ...

I’ve spent more than a decade as a special education teacher in New York City, and the hardest part of the job has never been the students; it’s been the paperwork. Too often, the IEPs and transition ...

State departments of education play a key role in providing resources for schools so they can better serve English learners with disabilities. However, an analysis of states’ public-facing documents ...

"When we design for the full range of human experience, we build better systems for everyone," said Chris Lemons, co-author and incoming faculty director of the Learning Differences Initiative. "Tools ...

The University of Indianapolis is introducing a new acting class to help students with learning-related disabilities. “We decided to devote an entire class to students in the Build program to work on ...

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Digital technologies bring the science of learning to a critical crossroad. With a lack of high-quality, evidence-based data ...