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Marjorie Guldan has been advocating for years for her daughter Rebecca, 14, who has an intellectual disability, to receive a more challenging education than the one she gets in her school system.
Posted inElementary to High School

For students with disabilities, quality of education can depend on zip code

Avatar photo by Rebecca Klein December 9, 2017March 30, 2020
Julie and Matthew high-five during a home-school lesson.
Posted inElementary to High School

These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

Avatar photo by Rebecca Klein December 2, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

How a struggling school for Native Americans doubled its graduation rate

Avatar photo by Emrys Eller and Alden Nusser November 28, 2017March 30, 2020
Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.
Posted inElementary to High School

Special education’s hidden racial gap

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton November 25, 2017March 30, 2020
A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers.
Posted inElementary to High School

How one district solved its special education dropout problem

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz November 18, 2017March 30, 2020
Mark Nelson poses for a photo at Citrus College in Glendora, California.
Posted inElementary to High School

Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students are ‘hurting their future’

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader November 11, 2017March 30, 2020
Adam Salomon at his high school graduation. Salomon’s mother, Karen, says he was not prepared for life after high school.
Posted inElementary to High School

The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz November 11, 2017March 30, 2020
Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career.
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, News, Willing, able and forgotten

Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating on time. Here’s why they’re not.

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader November 4, 2017March 30, 2020
food hardship
Posted inNews

Trump’s proposed after-school cuts could lead to more hungry kids, lower test scores

by Tovin Lapan August 7, 2017October 21, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

As graduates obsess about jobs, colleges cut spending on career services

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus May 11, 2017April 8, 2021

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