Tag: Special Education: Page 6

Disabilties

‘Creating an Atmosphere Of Acceptance’

When it comes to learning disabilities, minority students are often misdiagnosed.

June 11, 2008

Latinx

MSIs May Be Called On To Produce Degree-holding Head Start Teachers

New legislation to increase education level of preschool teachers.

December 12, 2007

Latinx

MSIs May Be Called On To Produce Degree-holding Head Start Teachers

New legislation to increase education level of preschool teachers.

December 10, 2007

Disabilties

Best & Brightest: Told He Lacked the “Intellectual Capacity” To Learn, Ph.D Candidate Proves Otherwise

Markell Harrison-Jackson grew up with a self-destructive combination of uncontrollable anger and learning inability.

October 23, 2007

Disabilties

Ore. Parents Sue After English-speaking Son Placed in ESL Class

HILLBORO Ore. The parents of a Latino boy who does not speak Spanish filed a $700,000 federal lawsuit against the Hillsboro School District, alleging that educators placed their son in an English as a Second Language program solely because of his ethnicity.

October 16, 2007

Home

Five Men, Five Different Views on Educating Black Males

Black males are discovering that they don’t need to ‘hit the books’ in order to make a living, and this is the reason behind recent statistics that report that as many as half of them drop out of high school and don’t pursue a college education.

October 14, 2007

Disabilties

Recording companies sue 12 Tulsa University students

TULSA Okla. A dozen University of Tulsa students are being sued in federal court for copyright infringement by 15 recording companies.

September 23, 2007

Home

Republican Candidates Offer Few New Ideas on Education

School vouchers are a perennial favorite, but higher education ideas are lacking.

August 22, 2007

African-American

Georgia State Professor Asa Hilliard Dies in Egypt

About 200 members of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) gathered Tuesday morning in Luxor, Egypt, at the tomb of Thutmose IV to commemorate the passing of one of the organization’s founders, the renowned multi-faceted scholar — Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III.

August 14, 2007

Students

Fewer New Mexico schools meet state’s goals for improvement

SANTA FE Fewer New Mexico’s schools reached targets for improving academic performance and student participation standards this year than in 2006, the Public Education Department said Friday.

August 6, 2007

Students

Grants & Gifts

California State University-Northridge has received a $2 million contribution from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to support the university’s Performing Arts Center. The 1,700-seat center is expected to begin construction this year and should be completed by 2009. Chestnut Hill College (Pa.) has received a four-year, $799,600 grant from the U.S. Department of […]

July 25, 2007

Disabilties

Grant Prompts Future Special Ed Teachers to Enroll in UNH Training Program

DURHAM N.H. Thanks to several federal grants, New Hampshire soon may be seeing more special education teachers.

July 15, 2007