In 2003, about half of school-age students with disabilities spent most of their school day in classrooms with their typically developing peers. By 2013, that number had risen to 61 percent. At least ...

Ms. Genn teaching about predictions during a recent reading lesson. Credit: Maya McFadden Photo As her kindergarteners quietly raised their hands to build their prediction skills and guess what might ...

Special education teachers fill out mountains of paperwork, customize lessons for students with a wide range of learning differences, and attend hours of bureaucratic meetings. It’s easy to see why it ...

Experts say obstacles include recruitment, funding and institutional support. Jahsha Tabron, the 2022 Delaware teacher of the year, taught special education for more than two decades and cherished ...

Like Erica, special education teachers throughout U.S. public schools have been vocal about their concerns regarding working conditions after the pandemic, particularly the shortage of resources and ...

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The breaking point for Elizabeth Orme came in 2016 when she found herself telling a family that their child would be getting a new special-education teacher — for the third time. The student should ...

As the meeting went on, Superintendent Miles was speaking to a smaller and smaller audience. Credit: Photo by Margaret Downing When Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles arrived, he brought with him ...

This is the first in a two-part series on the special education teacher shortage. You can read part two here. At the beginning of the school year, when Becky Ashcraft attended an open house at her ...

This story was updated on Jan. 10 to include information from the proposed California budget for 2020-21. Due to statewide teacher shortages, many of California’s approximately 800,000 special ...