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Parceling out Ed. Dept. work to other agencies risks weakening enforcement of disability rights laws, groups warn.

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Advocates and lawyers across the country say that too often students with disabilities are getting their school days shortened for behavior problems that should be addressed in the classroom Credit: ...

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Perry A. Zirkel’s commentary on students with learning disabilities raises important questions about whether a newly tolerant set of guidelines is being abused by “upper-income game players” (“Sorting ...

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...

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