As a teacher, you want all of your students to reach their academic potential. However, not everyone learns at the same pace or in the same way. That means you need to be prepared to provide ...

Students with learning disabilities drop out of high school at more than double the typical rate (NSBA, 2019). While over 60% of students go to college, about 5% of those with learning disabilities do ...

Caroline Richter, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Psychology, says learning disabilities are common, and there are many ways for parents to ...

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect one's ability in the domains of spoken or written language, mathematical calculation, attention, or the coordination of movement. They can occur in ...

There are a record number of students with disabilities in the nation’s schools. New data shows that there were 7.5 million children ages 3 to 21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities ...

The number of students in special education has increased steadily in the last four decades, with parents more readily seeking additional support and more students being diagnosed with conditions, ...

When you're a kid, school seems inevitable, but for school-aged children with disabilities, that wasn't always a guarantee. For decades, many states legally refused to educate children with ...

Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education’s special education office and move the program to another agency are already causing “immediate harm” to students with disabilities, advocates warn.

This story about special education classrooms was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Terri Joyce believed ...