News: Special Needs Students
Reviewing the Educational Challenges of 2022: The Need for Improvement in the Midst of Academic Gaps, Discipline and SEL Problems, School Shootings, and Continued Disproportionality
Blog summarizes and provides links to Blogs published during 2022. Twenty-two Blogs are organized in four themes: School Improvement and Staff Effectiveness; Social Skills Instruction and Social-Emoti...
Read Full ArticleTeaching Students Needed Academic and Social-Emotional Skills: We Need to Sweat the Small Stuff
Blog describes five vignettes that reinforce the importance that educators and related services professionals “sweat the small stuff.” We demonstrate that, to make big and meaningful academic and soci...
Read Full ArticleGeneration C (COVID) is Entering School with Significant Language, Academic, and Social Delays
This Blog reports the results of a number of recent studies and their descriptions of some of the delays exhibited by infants, toddlers, and preschoolers who have grown up during the pandemic. It then...
Read Full ArticleShould the U.S. Supreme Court Limit the Powers of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)?
Should the U.S. Supreme Court strike down specific regulations and legal interpretations made by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs? New Blog reviews (a) a recent Supreme Court decision lim...
Read Full ArticleReviewing Three New Studies on Student Discipline, Disproportionate Office Referrals, and Racial Inequity
New Blog discusses three new studies on student safety and classroom discipline, disproportionate office referrals and school suspensions, and racial equity and students’ need for social-emotional sup...
Read Full ArticleThe Blog-Year in Review: Politics and the Pandemic, SEL and MTSS, Race and Disproportionality
The 23 Project ACHIEVE Blogs written in 2021 are organized into four themes that summarize the issues and needs for education come 2022. The themes are: (a) Politics, the Common Good, and How the Past...
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