At Fox Meadow BOCES kids were the ones you liked to stay away from, the retards, the ones who were bused in. There were two patches of ice on the big field below the school: the big one for the normal kids and the small one for the BOCES. One day I wandered onto the [...]
Social stories explain social situations that might be difficult for kids on the spectrum to understand. I have tried to write them for my six year old son and recently we animated one together (see above; Flash required). A social story for Bill Gates might go: Sometimes we want to help. We try to help [...]
Neal Kingston, director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas, believes there’s a better way to evaluate what special-education students know, and don’t know. In October, the U.S. Department of Education awarded his center a $22 million grant – the largest in the university’s history – to develop a [...]
What was it like to teach during the Great Depression? Well, if you were like Ann Marie Low, living in Dust Bowl North Dakota, it was probably pretty tough. $50 a month, no heat in the hotel room you share with another unpaid teacher, when you’re not forced to take another room that a trucker [...]
I remember that old Steve Martin routine, Getting Small, whenever I visit with my family. “Let’s get small,” Steve would say, like a crazed drug fiend, and raise the mike stand over his head. With fifteen other family members crowded around my sister’s Thanksgiving table, I feel just like him, my concerns dwarfed beside my [...]
Wondered how they treat special ed students in super-testing Finland and found that in 2009 about 8.5% of Finnish students were transferred into special education and about 23% received part-time special education services. In LA Unified 10.8% of all students receive special ed services, in charters only 7%. What does this say? Maybe that in Finland [...]
At Dr. Diane Ravitch’s recent appearance in Los Angeles (which I videotaped; see below) one of her best lines quoted Rutger’s education economist Bruce Baker: “If I knew that a car that I was about to buy would surely explode one of every five times I got into it I would rather walk.” Dr. Ravitch [...]
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White kids over-identified autistic? African-American learning disabled? A. Advocacy B. Racism C. None of the above. D. All? 7 hours ago
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Whites kids over-identified autistic? African-American learning disabled? A. Advocacy B. Racism C. None of the above. D. All? 7 hours ago
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"Special Needs Respite Care Goes 5-Star" http://tinyurl.com/27nhwyp 8 hours ago
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Special ed over-ID?1206specialed http://www.statesman.com/news/education/1101754.html 8 hours ago
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RT @DianeRavitch: Public schools are not shoe stores. Closing them and opening another solves no students' problems. Help the kids, don' ... 10 hours ago
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