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The release of the documentary Waiting for Superman, NBC's Education Nation specials and teacher town hall, and D.C. Schools Superintendent Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates on The Oprah Winfrey Show — all will create a crescendo of voices, images and the master narrative that has been carefully developed over the past decade

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The Honor Bowl football showcase simply lives up to its message of combining prep sports, education, patriotism and honor, all while colliding in three special days of love for our nation's military veterans.

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Could it be that the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers» union and one of the most politically powerful special interests in history, isn't really about educational effectiveness after all, and that the Democrat Congress is in the pockets of the NEA?

Please join EPE Research Center director and study author Christopher Swanson as he moderates a lively and wide - ranging discussion among leading experts on critical issues shaping special education in the nation's schools.

As part of this work, Editorial Projects in Education publishes a special edition of Education Week devoted to critical issues facing efforts to improve the nation's high schools.

Please join Education Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion about challenges associated with developing, implementing, and managing special education programs at different levels of the nation's educatioEducation Week reporter Christina Samuels as she moderates a lively discussion about challenges associated with developing, implementing, and managing special education programs at different levels of the nation's educatioeducation programs at different levels of the nation's educationeducation system.

Ms Bokova, Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Mitzie Hunter, Minister of Education (Ontario Provincial Parliament), Ambassador Dessima Williams, Special Adviser to the President of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and Fred van Leeuwen, Secretary - General of Education International, will take the floor on 8 March, when the two fora come together.

The U.S. Department of Education released proposed regulations June 10 for the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that seek to give educators further guidance on how to serve the nation's 6.7 million children in special eEducation released proposed regulations June 10 for the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that seek to give educators further guidance on how to serve the nation's 6.7 million children in special eEducation Act that seek to give educators further guidance on how to serve the nation's 6.7 million children in special educationeducation.

Providing all of the world's children with a free, high - quality primary education by 2015 and giving girls the same access to schooling as boys by 2005 were among the targets expected to be endorsed late last week at the United Nations» Special Session on Children.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

Be sure to read all five parts of Education World's special report on the environmental conditions of our nation's school buildings, the health consequences for students and staff, and what school officials can do.

California school officials were correct to withhold special - education funds from a school district that refused to comply with special - education law, the U.S. Education Department has ruled in a case that may be the first of its kind in theducation funds from a school district that refused to comply with special - education law, the U.S. Education Department has ruled in a case that may be the first of its kind in theducation law, the U.S. Education Department has ruled in a case that may be the first of its kind in thEducation Department has ruled in a case that may be the first of its kind in the nation.

Causes and Effects of Sick Schools Vary In the fourth part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the varied causes and effects of environmental problems in our nation's schools.

In the decade of the 90's, we simply must find ways to set priorities and it's my own suggestion that we focus, with special urgency, on two of the nation's six education goals, both of which have wide support.

The New York City school board took the first step last week toward overhauling special education in the nation's largest school system.

Special education students in Mesa, Ariz., have set an ambitious goal — to walk the distance to the nation's capital.

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After several years of intense and successful lobbying to block the Reagan Administration's attempts to alter educational programs for handicapped children, the organization that represents the nation's state directors of special education is now turning its attention to helping the states improve special - education services.

The nation's main special education law has «serious cracks» and needs more than just money to fix it, Republican leaders said last week.

Some districts, like the nation's largest, in New York City, have found that it helps to pair general education teachers with special education teachers in a co-teaching model, where teachers share classroom responsibilities and both receive specialized training in teaching students with autism.

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This Education Week special report is all about the concrete — and equally crucial — topic of school facilities and what it takes to assure that the nation's 56 million schoolchildren have a modern, fully - equipped, well - maintained school to attend, and a place where all that theory and educator experience can be put into practice.

Paul E. Peterson's tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education.

Peterson's tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education.

To complete its work, the Task Force, with the support of staff from the Department of Education, reviewed the latest research on educator evaluations, examined systems in use both in - state and across the nation, and studied a range of issues related to the development of high - quality evaluation systems, such as observation protocols, growth measures, and special education considEducation, reviewed the latest research on educator evaluations, examined systems in use both in - state and across the nation, and studied a range of issues related to the development of high - quality evaluation systems, such as observation protocols, growth measures, and special education consideducation considerations.

She was an MSNBC contributor to two televised «Education Nation» specials.

This year, when Maryland was in line with the rest of the nation, Best said, its scores dropped 2 points, noting that the exclusion of special education students most likely had helped Maryland post higher scores in 2011.

Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.

Robert M. Worthington, ed assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, recently met with the Academy's National Research Council to initiate a study of the nation's unemployment situation, paying special attention to minority groups in job - scarce areas.

The National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS) released a report today, «Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection,» which examines 2013 - 2014 data on enrollment and placements of children with disabilities in the nation's charter schools.

Texas has placed a cap on special education supports; the nation identifies and places 12.9 % of students into Special Education, yet Texas capped their IDEA services at 8.5 % of their chspecial education supports; the nation identifies and places 12.9 % of students into Special Education, yet Texas capped their IDEA services at 8.5 % of their education supports; the nation identifies and places 12.9 % of students into Special Education, yet Texas capped their IDEA services at 8.5 % of their chSpecial Education, yet Texas capped their IDEA services at 8.5 % of their Education, yet Texas capped their IDEA services at 8.5 % of their children.

Three years later the legislature adopted the Special Needs Education Scholarship Account (ESA), becoming just the third state in the nation to approve an ESA.

Every district across the nation is required to pay for special education costs.

Still 13 percent of all students are still placed into special education ghettos that all but assure that they have slim chances of graduating high school, completing college, and participating productively in the nation's economy and society.

The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) just released a new report entitled Special Education in New Orleans: Juggling Flexibility, Reinvention, and Accountability in the Nation's Most Decentralized School System.

Percentage of learning disabled students aged 16 - 21 exiting special education in 2009 - 2010 who graduated with a diploma, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of U.S. Department of Education data — or a mere 256,000 American education in 2009 - 2010 who graduated with a diploma, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of U.S. Department of Education data — or a mere 256,000 American Education data — or a mere 256,000 American children.

A leader in the state and in the nation for progressive programs and services, our special education department meets the demands of a diverse range of disabilities and reflects a commitment to the concept of educating children in the least restrictive environment.

Idaho lawmakers, policymakers, school leaders, and education stakeholders joined Bluum for a special dinner presentation about the improvements and ongoing challenges in education over the last quarter - century and what the future holds for students in Idaho and the nation.

Let CS&A help you find your next Special Education teaching role in K - 12 private schools across the nation and worldwide.

All winners will be announced during a special awards dinner at the nation's leading education technology conference, the Education Industry Summit, in San Francisco education technology conference, the Education Industry Summit, in San Francisco Education Industry Summit, in San Francisco on May 5.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

The fact that AYP doesn't focus on low educational achievement for young men of all backgrounds, the most - persistent symptom of the nation's education crisis, has allowed districts to continue practices such as overlabeling of young men as special ed cases that toss more futures into the abyss.

Last year, Maryland led the nation in the percentage of special - education students it excluded from the NAEP.

North Carolina, which already scrapes the bottom of the barrel in terms of per pupil spending in general at 48th in the nation, also provides an inadequate amount of funding per special education student.

«School boards across the nation have advocated for an increased federal investment in key programs such as special education,» said Deborah A. Rigsby, Director, Federal Legislation, National School Boards Association.

And our faculty is among the best in the nation, with a history of national excellence in areas of special education, K - 12 and higher education leadership, and teaching and learning — as well as psychology, human development, and community studies.

«At most independent schools around the nation, there's not per se special education — that's a public mandate, and we're independent schools.»

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - seducation 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sEducation Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sEducation Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills and special advisor on education policy to the Secretary - General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), presented a detailed analysis of the newly released PISA results and lessons learned from deeper learning applications in high - performing nations.