Special Education

After Other Hardships, Trying to Bounce Back From Unemployment
New York Times, The | 16 minutes ago
Once Andrea Combs sensed that layoffs were imminent, she went to her caseworker?s office with a sense of purpose.

Sage Advice: How Would You Save Public Education? | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 22 minutes ago
I am entrusted with guiding the minds and futures of hundreds of students each year, and society wants to make me accountable for students' performance like a manufacturer is responsible for the quality of its products. However, the system doesn't want to compensate me in any reasonable way for the sometimes sixty-hour workweeks or the six figures I spent, and am still spending, on my own education.

Co-Teaching | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 1 hour 21 minutes ago
Hey everyone! I wanted to get people's experiences with co-teaching. My school went to an inclusion model last year. Prior to that, I had my own classroom of 6-8th graders with IEP's. I taught them Literacy and Math - they went out of my classroom for Social Studies and Science.

Good YA books for middle schoolers? | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 11 hours 15 minutes ago
Maybe this is just an English teacher question, but I hope not. I'd love to put together a Top 10 list of YA books that are most likely to get kids reading -- maybe a boys list and a girls list, with full crossover rights (smile) and share it at the middle school website I have fun with in my spare time.

With contract talks stalled, Chaska schools, union turn to mediator
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) | 12 hours 6 minutes ago
Both sides met all day with their state-appointed mediator without reaching a resolution. A second session is planned Jan. 5.

Tighter Tracking Vowed on Stimulus Jobs Impact
Education Week (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org) | 12 hours 13 minutes ago
Obama administration officials concede reporting errors, but tell skeptics in Congress the program is creating and saving many jobs.

Black, Hispanic Parents Say They Don't Feel Welcome In Schools
Hartford Courant (Conn.), The | 13 hours 35 minutes ago
Black and Hispanic parents and community leaders said they often don't feel welcome in schools and expressed frustration with uninterested teachers at the first of several town hall-style meetings Thursday organized by a new coalition of legislators and activists called Campaign LEARN.

Hawaii's school bus fare will more than double next year
Honolulu Advertiser, The | 14 hours 25 minutes ago
Public school parents will pay more for their kids to ride the school bus come next year after the state Board of Education last night voted 8-2 to raise one-way fares from 35 cents to 75 cents.

Lingle's rainy day plan earns Senate Democrats' support
Honolulu Advertiser, The | 14 hours 26 minutes ago
State Senate Democrats yesterday endorsed Gov. Linda Lingle's plan to use $50 million from the state's rainy day fund to help reduce teacher furloughs.

Success stories abound
Sun (Lowell, Mass.), The | 14 hours 44 minutes ago
DRACUT -- He coached 13 track and cross country athletes who already were in the Lowell High Athletic Hall of Fame.

Education in the year 2025
Sun (Lowell, Mass.), The | 14 hours 44 minutes ago
By Anthony Serio

Mary's WAY finds balance with religion
Chicago Tribune | 18 hours 17 minutes ago
Ann Winkle witnessed a miracle when she was just 5, a kindergartner in Cincinnati. Now more than 40 years later, she tells the story to women as if it happened yesterday. That's how much it has affected the Aurora woman who founded Mary's WAY (Women Answering Yes), a ministry to bring women together in faith and closer to the blessed mother Mary.