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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. . — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students.

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

Nothing remarkable in high-tech trends—more money, more devices, more hype. There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact—whether through changing academic standards, testing tools, teacher accountability and technology implementation—to make them a reality.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

What are the new trends in libraries? While these roles were drafted to appeal specifically to university and college librarians, they are universal enough to be relevant to school librarians working in primary and secondary school media centers, too. Who is the modern librarian?