Disabilities Exams Fairness 
eSchool News
JUNE 13, 2025
Brito’s experience is what state education leaders hoped for when they replaced the high school exit exam with multiple pathways to graduation. That’s similar to the share of students who didn’t graduate on time in 2019, the final year of the exit exam. Lawmakers passed it unanimously. Michael Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 24, 2025
Those who used generative AI performed worse on exams than students who didn’t rely on it. Compliance with Accessibility and Inclusion Laws Partners for Youth with Disabilities states that schools must ensure AI tutors are usable by students with disabilities. How can schools test the accessibility of AI tools?
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Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2018
When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Help or Hindrance?
eSchool News
JULY 20, 2016
The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam.
Edsurge
JANUARY 4, 2019
Fellows explicitly called out the need for college leaders to do more to support and provide access to high-quality education to groups such as low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities and mental health issues, refugees, first-generation college students and women and non-binary students.
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 13, 2023
“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 13, 2023
“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.
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