Resource Format: Web-based Content
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Comparison Between Asset and Deficit Based Approaches
The focus on the assets of communities—rather than its needs, deficits, or problems—represents an important shift in mindset and practice for people who work with communities on issues of importance .
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The State of Learning Disabilities: Strengthening Educator Confidence to Support
To better understand the conditions necessary to support and empower educators in meeting the needs of students with LD, the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), in partnership with WestEd, surveyed 1,654 general and special educators.
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The Differences Between IEPs and 504 Plans: A Special Education Explainer
Every student identified with a disability takes one of two paths—obtaining either an individualized education program (IEP) or a 504 plan—that determines the support services they receive in school.
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The Missing Piece in Math Reform: Identifying and Supporting Students with Dyscalculia
This brief explores why these students are falling through the cracks—and what states and districts can do about it now. They tackle what dyscalculia is, why students with dyscalculia often go unidentified, what early identification should look like, and what intervention should look like.
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Speech Accessibility Project
The project collects speech samples from paid volunteers representing a diversity of speech patterns. Illinois researchers are using the recordings to create a private, de-identified dataset for training machine learning models to better understand a variety of speech patterns.
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Preparing Our Kids for the Future — and Keeping Them Safe.
This guide shows every family what strong school AI policy looks like, what to ask, and how to advocate for safer, smarter use in your district and state.
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How Accessible Tech Can Promote Empathy and Collaboration
A middle school design and technology teacher breaks down a three-project unit that nicely overlaps with STEAM content.
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More Students with Disabilities Were Educated in General Education Settings, but State Trends Varied Widely
Seven million children received special education services in school year 2023-24. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, these students should be learning alongside their peers in general education classrooms as much as is appropriate.
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Significant Disproportionality in Special Education: Current Trends and Actions for Impact
This brief summarizes the literature and latest research on disproportionality in special education and offers changes in policy and practice that can reduce significant disproportionality in schools.
