Mrs. Alvarez starts her day at 7:30 a.m. with the usual bustle: backpacks thump onto the floor, lunch boxes are unpacked, and a stack of folders marked IEP—short for Individualized Education Program, ...

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Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. She is now an adjunct professor of ...

Proficiency levels have gone up among special ed students kept in class with their peers. (Jackie Mader/Hechinger Report) When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked ...

If there’s one thing that is clear about schools right now, it’s that students and teachers are struggling. But what teachers blame for these troubles ranges from new parenting techniques to ...

For this year’s Schools’ Inclusion Conference educators will explore how to create transformational learning experiences and ...

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