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In high school, I had the honor of coaching basketball with Unified Sports, a branch of Special Olympics that works to create inclusive sports experiences for students with disabilities. I saw the ...

AIKEN — The first time Tanya Lord heard about a teacher aide laying hands on her then 6-year-old daughter was when a fellow parent asked if she’d seen the police report. A therapist visiting Horse ...

Beatrice Garcia credits the special education classroom assistants at Henderson Elementary in Englewood for helping her son speak. “He hasn’t been verbal,” said Garcia. “But now that he’s been with ...

Public schools are struggling to fill vacancies for special education teachers. For the 2024-25 school year, 72% of public schools with special education teacher vacancies reported they'd "experienced ...

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Proficiency levels have gone up among special ed students kept in class with their peers. (Jackie Mader/Hechinger Report) When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked ...

This story about special education classrooms was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Terri Joyce believed ...

It’s a classroom built on compassion, confidence and community. Brother Rice teacher Mary Erdmann has built a one-of-a-kind inclusion program on the southside and it’s bringing students together ...

Haley Thrift helps some students in her classroom at UCP Bailes Community Academy in Orlando. Walkers and wheelchairs line the hallways at UCP Bailes Community Academy, a K-8 charter school in Orlando ...