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Cumberland County teachers can broadcast lessons across entire district
Math teacher Rachel Hendrickson has the capability to teach every algebra class in Cumberland County, N.C., high schools at the same time: All it takes is a SMART Board, laptop,…
Watch: This Android phone is tailor-made for visually impaired people
Rather than downloading various apps and software to accommodate their needs, the visually impaired are getting an Android smartphone developed specifically for them, Mashable reports. …
Michigan school elects special needs homecoming king
Fall in high school means one thing perhaps more than others: football. And with football comes the ritual homecoming king and queen selections. In Linden, Michigan, a small rural community…
Special education in the U.S. has a long way to go—here’s what schools can do about it
In 1965, Congress passed legislation that created a bureau to examine the problems facing special needs students in the nation’s public schools, TakePart reports.…
Inadequate teaching may soon become a thing of the past for many special needs kids
The Department of Education has just made their largest investment ever in improving education for students with disabilities, TakePart reports. …
Technology helps make speech therapy easier
With speech language pathologists in short supply, rural Glenn County in northern California has turned to PresenceLearning to provide online speech therapy services for about 10 Willows Unified School District…
Opinion: How schools (even great ones) fail kids with ADHD
here’s a group of students struggling through school rd to navigate that gets little attention in the media or in the debate about how to fix schools: Children with ADHD,…
Study: The one change districts should make to save $10 billion
A study released Wednesday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has found that if high-spending public school districts reduced their special education staffing levels to align with the national median,…
Are medications, IQ related to learning disabilities?
A recent nationwide survey of nearly 2,000 Americans by the National Center for Learning Disabilities has found that many people are uncertain about the causes and treatments of learning disabilities,…
Special needs kids staying in traditional schools
The high cost of educating students with special needs is disproportionately falling on traditional public schools as other students increasingly opt for alternatives that aren't always readily open to those…