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...

North Carolina public schools are losing students to charter schools, private schools and homeschooling, reports T. Keung Hui in the...

– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...

The teenage boy, who’s on the autism spectrum, wore a black trench coat every day as a comfort garment. He talked obsessively about video...

Students on the autism spectrum may do well in high school, but fail in college, writes Brendan Borrell on Spectrum. Some colleges now...

classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...

“Special education” will not be offered by Detroit’s main school district any more. The board has voted to adopt the term “exceptional...

Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist and father, writes In Praise of ADHD in the New York Times. Ten years ago, when my son Nicolai was 11, his...

One in 59 eight-year-olds has autism spectrum disorder, according to a new Centers for Disease Control report. The rate of autism...