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...

The best predictor of children's risk of severe neglect and abuse is not poverty, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in City Journal. It's drug...

Our society and our schools aren't designed for "visual thinkers, which so many of us neurodivergent folks are," writes Temple Grandin, a...

Black leaders have transformed reading instruction in northern Virginia, reports Sarah Carr in the Washington Post. The Fairfax County...

Will Stanford continue to award master's degrees? Will my daughter's major -- American Studies -- need a new name? Stanford's IT...

Yale discriminates against students with mental-health issues, according to a lawsuit filed this week, reports William Wan in the...

In Florida, which pioneered school choice for special-needs students more than 20 years ago, students with disabilities are doing very...

My resolution for 2021, renewed for 2022, was to be kind and calm. There is enough nastiness and enough hysteria out there without me...

Of the three million students who will start college this fall, one million won't make it through the first year on campus or won't...

Teaching special-needs students is challenging and stressful. Special education teachers are in short supply across the country, and have...

Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...

Special education is failing children in New York City, reports Elizabeth A. Harris in the New York Times. When “T.J.” was two, his...

Clapping and cheering have been banned at University of Manchester Student Union events, lest the noise upset “students with anxiety or...

How do children learn to read? Most states don’t require new elementary and special-education teachers to show they understand the...

Inclusion — placing students with disabilities in mainstream classes — may not help special-needs students learn, concludes Allison...