NPR

As special ed students are integrated more at school, teacher training is evolving

Kellen Hedler is actively engaged in his fourth-grade classroom: He raises his hand to correctly answer a math question, he reads prompts out loud for the class and he gathers with classmates to watch ...
Colorado Public Radio

The state desperately needs special education teachers. This Cañon City teacher answered the call after 22 years as an aide

Shhhh. We’re in an eighth-grade classroom at Cañon Middle School and kids are working on compound and independent and dependent clauses. Jolene Phillips circulates the room, making sure the students ...
Governing

Nebraska Keeps Special Ed Students in General Classrooms, With Promising Results

Proficiency levels have gone up among special ed students kept in class with their peers. (Jackie Mader/Hechinger Report) When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked ...
Post and Courier

Lawmakers propose cameras in special ed classrooms. Parents want them. Disability advocates disagree.

AIKEN — The first time Tanya Lord heard about a teacher aide laying hands on her then 6-year-old daughter was when a fellow parent asked if she’d seen the police report. A therapist visiting Horse ...
New Orleans City Business

Louisiana schools will add cameras in special education classrooms. Who’s monitoring them?

A law that requires all Louisiana public schools to have one camera placed in each special education classroom takes effect Sunday. And school leaders in the greater New Orleans area say they’re on ...