Category: Intersectional Needs and Considerations
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Experts Offer Ideas to Ensure AI Is Disability-Inclusive
This article was written and Published by Julia Edinger— April 9th, 2025 A report from the Center for Democracy and Technology provides suggestions for government in building an inclusive artificial intelligence ecosystem, to help ensure its tools serve people equitably. As the artificial intelligence ecosystem advances, there are steps government agencies can take to ensure it is disability-inclusive.…
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Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver
This article was written and Published by eSchool Media Contributors — April 7th, 2025 Teachers who use AI frequently say they believe the technology will have a positive impact on students’ learning Key points: Many teachers say they have yet to receive any AI training or substantial guidance from their school 6 recommendations for AI…
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Designing Inclusive Technologies: How Accessible Innovations Can Transform the Lives of People with Disabilities
This article was written and Published by Automate.org — November 23rd, 2024 As people move through their routines in the ever-increasingly digital environment, it has become more imperative to make technology accessible. There are more than a billion people or about 15% of the world’s population with one sort of disability or the other, hence…
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Anxious NYC parents plead for remote school option for kids with medically vulnerable family
This article was published on New York Daily News by Michael Elsen-Rooney on September 12, 2021. Queens mom Rasheedah Pierce knows first-hand the devastation that can follow when a contagious respiratory virus sneaks into a home with a medically vulnerable child. Five years ago, her 2-year-old son Kenneth — one of two twins who suffered…
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Digital Promise Project to Promote Equity in Learning and Employment Records
This article was published on Campus Technology by Rhea Kelly on June 14, 2021. Digital Promise, a nonprofit focused on closing the digital skills gap, is embarking on an effort to design and communicate the value of more equitable Learning and Employment Records (LERs). LERs are “digital records of an individual’s skills, credentials, diplomas, and…
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Equity should be ‘infused’ in education, experts say during summit
This article was published on District Administration by Charles Hendrix on June 22, 2021. The U.S. Education Department on June 22 hosted the first session of its Equity Summit Series, which officials hope will provide the opportunity to “reimagine” schools to ensure equitable access to resources and supports for all students. ED officials said that…
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Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education
This article was published on Education Next by Todd E. Elder, David N. Figlio, Scott A. Imberman, and Claudia L. Persico on February 16, 2021. Racial segregation in U.S. schools has been illegal since the 1950s, but school enrollments remain stubbornly separate. About 70 percent of all Black students attend schools where more than half…
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Their son had autism. Mom didn’t speak English well. COVID-19 put school online: One family’s fight for special ed services
This article was published on WTTW by Matt Masterson on December 18, 2020. This story was produced by the Teacher Project, an education reporting fellowship at Columbia Journalism School. NUTLEY, N.J. – Ever since Carlos Tejada was diagnosed with autism at 13 months old, his parents have struggled to find him the right services. It was…
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‘A lost generation’: Surge of research reveals students sliding backward, most vulnerable worst affected
This article was published in the Washington Post by Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson on December 6, 2020. After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now shows they were right. A flood of new data — on the national, state and…