A Massachusetts ballot measure ending state graduation requirements is backed by 58% of voters, says new poll.

A former special-ed student is suing Hartford Public Schools because she wasn't taught to read or write.

Overwhelmed by the number of students with different needs, teachers tend to lower expectations, writes veteran teacher.

Special education numbers are up.

Spending more on special ed doesn't lead to better outcomes. Teaching reading well does.

AI-powered “nudification” apps are letting teenage boys turn real photos of their clothed classmates into "deepfake" porn to be shared...

As autism diagnoses soar -- 1 in 36 U.S. children is now considered autistic -- providing therapy is a booming business, writes Beth...

Help struggling readers starting in kindergarten, says Tennessee's school board in a resolution. If they need more time to...

Trenace Dorsey-Hollins asked why her daughter received "emerging" (the lowest level) on her first-grade report card for a skill she'd...

Schools are failing to diagnose dyslexia, which makes it hard for as many as 20 percent of students to master reading, writes Sarah Carr...

Holding kids back if they're way behind in reading is very controversial, but new research shows that repeating a grade in elementary...

"When schools fail to teach reading, it harms the public's trust in schools," writes Kendra Hurley in Slate. Her children's Brooklyn...

School is "like being in prison," says 14-year-old Kieran, who has dyslexia and ADHD. He prefers doing physical labor with his father....

Fifteen percent of K-12 students are in special education, nearly double what it was in the late '70s, according to a Pew Research Center...

Colleges are disabling students, teaching them that they need not show up in class, complete assignments on time or give an oral...

Autism rates keep climbing -- nearly 3 percent, of all eight-year-olds in the latest estimates -- yet there's no sense of crisis, writes...

Emma Camp was diagnosed with autism in college, and embraced the explanation for her insecurities and personality quirks, she writes in a...

Keri Rodrigues, co-founder and president of the National Parents Union, complained on Twitter about the special-education team "who...

Schools aren't supposed to suspend special-needs students if their misbehavior is related to their disability. But some schools use...

“I just might come to yo school and kill everybody,” a 17-year-old former student wrote in an Instagram message. He specifically...