eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

A third challenge resulting from the pandemic has been how teachers should address the rapidly evolving requirements for remote learning—from what goals to teach to, to logging instructional hours, addressing absenteeism and cataloging evidence of learning—for their students with special education needs.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Office of Special Education Programs has awarded a five-year, $2.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. We asked the same questions to more than 1,000 special educators and they added feeling exhausted, frustrated and confused. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. D, SVP, Special Education – Behavior, Specialized Education Services, Inc.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

So, What’s Alternative About Our School? I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services.

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