Special Education at a Crossroads: Ensuring Equity and Inclusion for Students with Disabilities
This brief outlines the ongoing challenges and offers recommendations to reshape how America’s schools serve students with disabilities.
Notes from the Field: How students with disabilities experienced the challenges of remote learning
As systems figure out how to recover, schools need to think beyond their usual approaches, such as simply increasing service minutes to help students catch up.
All Together Now: Getting Students with Disabilities What They Need During the Pandemic
During the 2020–21 school year, we learned through a series of interviews that most teachers missed out on the power of collaborative interactions between general and special educators.
Addressing learning loss for students with disabilities: Could Universal Design for Learning be one answer?
This is the third blog post in our Notes from the Field: Special Education blog series. Data on students’ academic progress during the pandemic is scarce, but early signs show that many students with disabilities struggled to stay on track. Our year-long study of special education in a sample of 15 schools revealed that most already-weary teachers and […]
Technology to the rescue: How technology helped connect teachers and parents of students with disabilities through remote learning
This is the second blog post in our Notes from the Field: Special Education blog series. In the early days of the pandemic, schools scrambled to address new and daunting priorities like distributing meals to students and setting families and teachers up for remote learning. Unfortunately, in the frenzy, many schools failed to communicate sufficiently with […]
Virtual IEPs should stay
This is the first blog post in our Notes from the Field: Special Education blog series. When the pandemic hit last spring, schools across the country shifted out of sheer necessity to virtual meetings to discuss students’ Individual Education Plans (IEP). But the move has had some unanticipated benefits, with some educators and parents praising them […]
