Ivan was a fourth grader with big brown eyes, a wide smile and a quiet demeanor who refused to enter my classroom. “Everyone thinks I’m stupid,” he’d say. I’ve changed his name to protect his privacy.

Carrie Doyle serves on the Orange County school board and is not currently running for reelection. This piece reflects her personal opinion and not the opinion of the OCS Board of Education. Inclusive ...

A school has implemented a co-learning program that brings children of all learning abilities together in a single classroom.The Peer Model Program at Underwood Hills Early Childhood center not only ...

A teacher works with a student at Westmoor Elementary in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The district is one of the first to adopt a statewide initiative to improve inclusion in classrooms. Credit: Jackie ...

For the past 25 years, U.S. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. It seems a ...

Coreen often arrives smiling and eager to our 10th-grade criminal-justice classroom in our rural high school. But when content moves too fast or there is a need for background knowledge she's still ...

In Bangor’s Downeast School, teachers are setting up for the upcoming year. Crayon boxes and name plates top small desks, signs spell out the ABC’s. In one classroom, a banner proclaims “All Are ...

The education of children with disabilities is a complex issue more than 30 years after “inclusive education” appeared for the first time in an important 1994 United Nations statement. Children with ...

Only half of teachers surveyed in Canada say students are taught in ways that are relevant to the skills they need for the future, according to new survey from Microsoft As a new school year begins ...

Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. She is now an adjunct professor of ...