Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate ...

The Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Early Learning (OSEEL) has joined the rest of the nation in ...

Students are forced to miss school. EAs face stress and injuries. More training and outside help may be the answer.

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 ...

Disability rights advocates warn that a pending Supreme Court of the United States case could reshape how intellectual ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

Why it matters: The program, known as BOOST (short for Building Outstanding Opportunities for Students to Thrive ), was ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum — an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

New charter schools are struggling to enroll enough students to stay solvent. One High Point school’s implosion shows the consequences.

How a groundbreaking law transformed education for millions of students with disabilities and drives APS’s vision for ...