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‘Creating an Atmosphere Of Acceptance’

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

National Advisory Panel Report Multiplies Questions About Math Instruction

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP), created by the U.S. Department of Education in 2006 at President Bush’s urging, released its final report last month, which raises more questions than provides answers on the best practices of math instruction.

Faculty & Staff

At Diversifying Colleges Tenure Still a Hurdle for Women, Minorities

Educators gathered for the workshop on promoting faculty diversity at the National Education Association: American Federation of Teachers (NEA-AFT) conference held in Washington last week, heard from higher education officials about not only achieving a racially diverse faculty, but achieving a diversity, which also includes women and people with disabilities.

Leadership & Policy

Letters

INCLUSION IS JUST PART OF THE STORY “Perspectives: Tradition of Inclusion Left Out of William & Mary President’s Story,” Feb. 26, 2008 Inclusion is indeed part of [President Gene] Nichol’s story, but it is a minor issue in the chaos that Nichol created at W&M. And diversity of intellectual thought was not on his agenda. […]

Perspectives: Cosby Offers More Needed Tough Love In New Book

Many of Bill Cosby’s critics forget he was not born with a silver spoon. Bill Cosby, like many of us, has fallen a time or two but he always managed to get back up. This, I think, is what Bill Cosby in his new book, Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, is imploring us to do; that is, to get back in the race called life.

U of Washington Researchers Make a PC Mouse That Recognizes Sound for People with Disabilities

SEATTLE A mouse that can move accurately in response to sounds could mean the difference between dependence and independence for someone with motor impairments.

Best & Brightest: Injury Leads Student to New Career Goal, New Charity, New Outlook on Life

During his freshman year at Pennsylvania State University in 2000, Adam Taliaferro had dreams of entering the NFL. But during the season’s fifth game against Ohio State, Taliaferro’s life took a dramatic turn.

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.

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.

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.

Edwards rolls out education policy

DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool.

Leadership & Policy

Legislator says he may want EKU president’s job

RICHMOND Ky. A state representative said he may consider pursuing the vacant president’s job at Eastern Kentucky University.

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