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A few seconds of personal disclosure can shape how students experience an entire course, according to new research in ...

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Kellen Hedler is actively engaged in his fourth-grade classroom: He raises his hand to correctly answer a math question, he reads prompts out loud for the class and he gathers with classmates to watch ...

This story about special education was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Bethany Jolliffe started ...

Tiffani Jaseph, a Special Education teacher at the K-5 Copper View Elementary School in the Sahuarita Unified School District ...

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, ...

Kellen Hedler, 11, is outgoing and gregarious. He dances on a hip-hop team, and he enjoys all kinds of sports. Adaline Whitmer, 7, is bubbly, yet shy. She's starting to come out of her shell since she ...

A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in ...

I am always happy when my work generates a public discussion. That happened after a January column I wrote about a prominent scholar’s critique of the evidence for including children with disabilities ...

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 ...