News tagged with special education
Co-workers can be as important as supervisors for effective student internships, researcher finds
Summer internships are beginning, and career-related research from Kansas State University is helping determine what can make those internships more meaningful for students.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 08, 2012 |
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Charter schools spend more on administration than traditional public schools
While charter school advocates criticize public school bureaucracies as bloated and wasteful, it turns out that charters spend more on administration and less on instruction than traditional public schools, according to a ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Research finds the under-reporting of children with significant reading difficulties
New research at the University of York has found that nearly 50 per cent of secondary school pupils with reading difficulties are not on the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Register.
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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Bilinguals find it easier to learn a third language
The study also found that Russian speakers had a better grasp of Hebrew than Hebrew speakers themselves. "Learning a mother tongue and preserving it does not compromise the ability to learn an additional language. The opposite ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Increased marginalization of students in Sweden
The successful Swedish model of reducing the impact of students' different social, cultural and economic backgrounds on academic outcome is severely threatened after 20 years of educational reforms. This is the main point ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Children with disabilities not accurately portrayed in top children's books
Despite an increasingly positive portrayal of disabilities in Newbery Award-winning books, they are not representative of the nearly 7 million children with disabilities attending U.S. public schools, say ...
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Dec 21, 2010 |
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Gestational age at delivery has relationship with the risk of special educational needs
Research published this week in PLoS Medicine shows that there is an association between gestation of a baby at delivery and the risk of special educational needs in later life. This finding has important implications for th ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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New research offers guidance for improving primary grade writing instruction
New research from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College offers guidance for teachers to help them improve writing instruction in the primary grades and develop stronger student writers.
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Deaf children use hands to invent own way of communicating
Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research ...
Feb 15, 2009 |
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