Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

ROTW: Assessing students with disabilities

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

The latest installment of the Report of the Week (ROTW) comes from Education Sector:

Labeled: The Students Behind NCLB’s ‘Disabilities’ Designation

Here’s a quote from the report:

[B]ecause the majority of special education students have disabilities that do not preclude them from reaching grade-level standards there doesn’t seem to be a need to rollback NCLB’s accountability measures for students with disabilities. To the contrary, doing so could hurt such students by reducing schools’ responsibility for ensuring that they are taught to high standards.

Happy reading!

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

a man standing in front of a blackboard with writing on it.

Neuropsych

The man who tried to redeem the world with logic

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

Neuropsych

The lasting anguish of moral injury

Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.

High Culture

These high school “classics” have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.

Progress

The Great Progression, 2025-2050

The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.

The Well

I study America’s youth. Here’s what I found

Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.

Up Next

Guest Thinkers

Implementation dip

In his comment last week, Jack Phelps, founder of ChitCh.at (which looks interesting, by the way!), noted that there’s always an adoption curve. The challenge, of course, is to reduce […]