The breaking point for Elizabeth Orme came in 2016 when she found herself telling a family that their child would be getting a new special-education teacher — for the third time. The student should ...

Special education teachers fill out mountains of paperwork, customize lessons for students with a wide range of learning differences, and attend hours of bureaucratic meetings. It’s easy to see why it ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to provide additional details about the Education Department’s next steps. A paperwork change proposed by the U.S. Department of Education would end an ...

Technology has long been viewed as having the promise to make schools more effective and educators more efficient. In the late 1990s, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) provided ...

When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was signed into law in 1975, it was a groundbreaking piece of legislation. For the first time, students with disabilities were guaranteed ...