student support
If You Want to Know What Works for Students With Dyslexia, Ask Them
Imagine you are a mature, intelligent middle-school student who finds it difficult to write anything—numbers or letters—on paper in a way that makes sense. You have dyslexia and struggle because...
IEP
Here's How the COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Will Affect Education
Late this morning the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act. The total tab is $2 trillion and includes direct payments to Americans, an...
Achievement Gap
It's Time to Acknowledge That This Is the New Normal
To call the last few weeks hard, unprecedented and surreal feels trite. We are facing a pandemic unlike any in the last century and it is only a matter of time before it impacts each of us in deeply...
Special Education
Real Talk From Parents Homeschooling Children With Disabilities
Parents of children with disabilities are already some of the strongest, fiercest and most exhausted parent advocates for quality schools during regular times. So sure, add on a national pandemic,...
Special Education
Once We Beat the Coronavirus, Let's End the Pandemic in Our Public Schools
Here’s something to take our minds off occasional thoughts of the world ending—thoughts probably caused by hallucinations from inhaling the Lysol we’re spraying hourly to keep COVID-19 out of our...
IEP
Districts Are Using Students With Disabilities as an Excuse to Do Nothing
My husband and I have four children. Our three oldest are what we in the special needs community call “neuro-typical” and our youngest has multiple disabilities. Let’s pretend that they are all...
