This month’s Teachers Who Make a Difference highlights Paiton Zanette, a self-contained special education teacher at Parkside High School, who is ensuring her students graduate with important life ...

Students at Belmont-Cragin often lead morning assemblies, part of an effort by the school to give young people more control over their own learning. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report The ...

Kellen Hedler is actively engaged in his fourth-grade classroom: He raises his hand to correctly answer a math question, he reads prompts out loud for the class and he gathers with classmates to watch ...

Students with special needs are often missing out on critical areas of math instruction—especially data processing, statistics and probability—raising concerns about their readiness for real-world ...

Like Erica, special education teachers throughout U.S. public schools have been vocal about their concerns regarding working conditions after the pandemic, particularly the shortage of resources and ...

Special education teachers fill out mountains of paperwork, customize lessons for students with a wide range of learning differences, and attend hours of bureaucratic meetings. It’s easy to see why it ...

In American education, special education too often receives insufficient attention in political discourse. This oversight is troubling because it affects countless Tennessee families and vulnerable ...