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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Dec. 2 led four Republican colleagues in introducing legislation that would amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to improve provisions related to dyslexia. 

“Dyslexia has no impact on a student’s intelligence,” Sen. Cassidy said. “We know how to teach a student with dyslexia how to read and reach their full potential, but we have to identify their need before they fall behind.”

The ECSEL program at the University of Washington Bothell prepares candidates interested in administering special education programs through a non-degree program that leads to the required Washington State Residency Program Administrator Certification. Find complete program and application information on the ECSEL website.

Current federal legislation and regulation that monitors for significant disproportionality in special education may be contributing to children of color with disabilities failing to receive treatments and services to which they are legally entitled, according to a Penn State College of Education researcher.

According to Paul Morgan, Harry and Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow and professor of education (educational theory and policy), and director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, federal legislation and regulation monitors U.S. school districts for whether children of color are over-represented in special education. Yet, he added, this monitoring does not attempt to account for between-group disability prevalence rates as indicated by individually assessed evidence of impairments.

When Hickory Public Schools landed on a warning list for identifying a significantly disproportionate number of Black students as having mild intellectual disabilities in 2017, it took a look at its practices.

At that time, the district was more than six times as likely to place a Black student in Exceptional Children (EC) services for mild intellectual disability (mild ID) than a student of any other race. Upon closer examination, the district realized the disparity extended to many other areas, too.

At the beginning of the year, many of us co-write expectations with our students. These are agreements that we all promise to adhere to so that everyone starts strong.

We can transfer this helpful practice into our co-teaching relationships as well.

The ECSEL program at the University of Washington Bothell prepares candidates interested in administering special education programs through a non-degree program that leads to the required Washington State Residency Program Administrator Certification. Find complete program and application information on the ECSEL website.

Learning acceleration describes efforts to expose students to engaging, grade-level content while catching them up on skills and material they might have missed. 

This can be a more effective approach than remediation, in which students work their way through material below their grade level in an effort to catch up. 

CASE is partnering with GOALBOOK to present a series of free webinars in the Spring of 2022. The series is designed exclusively for special education administrators and supervisors. Throughout the series, you will hear from special education experts and thought leaders with real-world guidance about best practices, legal advice, and research.

Office hours, as many middle and high school teachers can attest, are often a frustratingly underutilized block of time during the school day—an unstructured period earmarked for student check-ins and lesson support that very few kids take advantage of, even when they understand the benefits.

The ECSEL program at the University of Washington Bothell prepares candidates interested in administering special education programs through a non-degree program that leads to the required Washington State Residency Program Administrator Certification. Find complete program and application information on the ECSEL website.