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Unclear Path Forward
With the effective closure of the Department of Education, services designed to support students with disabilities are being moved under the purview of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This has caused much concern within the disability rights community. HHS representatives met with disability rights advocates to attempt to address their concerns, but…
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The Fight for Disability Rights
Special Education is inherently political. Services that seem to be ubiquitous today seemed unobtainable not too long ago. The rights and protections afforded to students and people with disabilities are the product of organizers, parents, advocates, and disabled individuals themselves relentlessly demanding them. However, partially due to the stigmatization that is still placed upon those…
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Section 504 and Trans rights
The Supreme Court’s ruling to allow West Virginia to discriminate against trans athletes is connected to a Texas lawsuit targeting disability rights The Supreme Court The Supreme Court in its current composition has made several decisions that have appeared to be a deliberate attempt to undo decades of social progress in the United States. In…
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An Open Letter to Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth
Good evening Senators Durbin and Duckworth, Thank you both for being a voice for Illinois. I am a special education teacher and a doctoral candidate who teaches on the West Side of Chicago. The damage that Elon Musk is doing will be devastating to the West Side Community, and especially my students. People with disabilities…
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Some Thoughts on Cynicism
This is a post that is a little different than things that I have typically done. This, in some ways, is a follow up to my latest post where I briefly discussed the dangers of cynicism in education. Since writing that post, I have been thinking a lot about cynicism and how I see its…
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Cynicsm and Education
It has been a long time since I’ve posted. Work and school have both kept me extremely busy, but now that I’m officially able to start collecting data for my dissertation, suddenly I’m motivated again to get my voice out there. I wanted to share a TikTok from one of my favorite creators on the…
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Update from my Research Project
It has been awhile since I’ve been able to post an update, but I wanted to do one quickly as I have started the first research cycle that will lead to my dissertation. It is a very exciting time for me as I have finally been able to begin interviewing participants in order to better…
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Continuing Thoughts on the Purpose of School
How can we expect students to develop social skills when they are surrounded with students who have difficulty interacting with them?
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What is the Purpose of School?
The most important theme that I found through this assignment is that all of the stakeholders involved in this assignment felt as though school should focus more on developing the “soft skills” (i.e., social skills) as opposed to traditional academics.
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