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...

all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.” Under No Child Left Behind...

Beth Hawkins writes about what it’s like when your child’s teachers don’t really believe he can learn. Her older son was offered learning...

Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...

When he brought a knife to San Diego’s Lincoln High School, the student’s special education team decided he wasn’t responsible because it...

Parents of children with dyslexia forced their school district to teach phonics, reports Emily Hanford on NPR. Upper Arlington, Ohio...

Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on...

Parkland, Florida students and teachers are returning to Stoneman Douglas High this week, though not to the freshman building where a...

Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...

Percentage of children and youth ages 3–21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by race/ethnicity: 2014–15...

School integration is a mirage, writes RiShawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. Cambridge,Massachusetts is a “leader in school...