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627A developmental disability diagnosis can hit hard – but it isn’t a knockout
An evaluation for a developmental disability can feel like a double-edged sword.
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756Stunned education researchers say cuts go beyond DEI, hitting math, literacy
Following Trump research budget purge, school analysts face new world.
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5991 in 5 child care workers is an immigrant. Trump’s deportations and raids have many terrified
Many staff and children aren’t showing up as federal crackdown on immigration ramps up.
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827Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’
Research doesn't support academic advantages of placing children with disabilities in general education classrooms.
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722The Department of Education told employees to end support for transgender students
This ends programs, contracts and policies failing "to affirm the reality of biological sex.”
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554Severe irritability in children and teens: A new understanding
Kids with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder have explosive outbursts well past toddler age. Why?
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2.4KQ&A: Black kids overdiagnosed with ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’
The ‘bad kid’ diagnosis ‘greases the school-to-prison pipeline.’ This doctor offers anti-racist solutions.
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823Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it
The best program to help students with disabilities get jobs is almost a secret.
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624Moms to Trump: We want relief on child care costs
A new national campaign encourages Trump to keep and expand the child tax credit.
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819Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
It remains to be seen if, and how, the federal government will weigh in.
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511Parents of premature babies struggle to get help their children are entitled to
Few families with premature babies receive the early intervention services they are eligible for.
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537Trump wants to withhold money from schools teaching ‘discriminatory equity ideology,’ gender identity
Federal law prohibits this. Can this executive order be enforced?
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2.0KTrump’s ‘pause’ on federal funds: It has not been rescinded. Are early learning & nutrition programs in danger?
Programs serving women and children would be hit particularly hard by a funding pause.
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1.1KA dismal report card in math and reading
2024 NAEP test results document large increases in students who lack basic skills.
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1.5KAcross all ages and demographics, test results show Americans are getting dumber
In the last decade, achievement scores have been falling — and gaps have been widening.
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1.1KTrump admin guts school safety committee created to combat mass shootings
The committee functioned as a check on federal government recommendations to solve school violence.
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492Five big obstacles to opening child care facilities in rural Illinois
About 60% of rural Americans live in child care deserts.
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829Writing notes instead of typing pits scholars against each other
A widely cited neuroscience study claims handwriting notes improves learning. Is the research valid?
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8149 education storylines to watch as Trump returns to the White House
How could President Trump's actions on these key issues change education in America's future?
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2.0KQ&A: How a child becomes bilingual — and what can be done to help them get there
Q&A with developmental psychologist and language scientist Adriana Weisleder Kids from immigrant backgrounds in the US often struggle to develop fluency in...
