Tag: Special Education
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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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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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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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Questions
As I am sitting here waiting for a Zoom meeting with my classmates, I wanted to do a quick reflection of some thoughts that I have regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities into the general education environment. Who should be deciding if a student is “right” for the inclusion environment? In my experience, the…
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Benefits of Collaboration in Special Education.
Recently, I had the opportunity to collaborate with general educators while writing an IEP for a student on my caseload and I wanted to write about the experience a little. Overall it was a very positive experience and it is something that I hope to be able to do more often going forward.
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The Teacher Shortage and the Working Conditions of Special Educators
While there are still questions regarding the specifics of reported teacher shortage, I believe this is a good time to look into what some researchers have found regarding the working conditions that special educators and what special educators have reported they need to be successful
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The Illusion of School Choice: ESAs, vouchers, and student rights.
Simply calling something a freedom does not make it so, and the freedoms provided by ESAs are an illusion at best.
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Push Among States to Lower Standards for Teacher Certification
Why not do things that would attract more qualified teachers to the schools?
