Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conversations around race and disability often get left out of schools. FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images When I was a special ...

For all the headlines proclaiming and debunking reports of a national teacher shortage, few have picked up on the issue’s third rail: Educators qualified to teach students with disabilities have been ...

In recent years, there has been a noticeable decline in the number of faculty to train aspiring special education teachers and other leaders in the field of special education. Project SELF (Special ...

The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...

Special education students could face worsening services under a gutted Department of Education, according to the Education Law Center.

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Schools in Pennsylvania will soon have the opportunity to receive funding for disability-inclusive curriculum thanks to a new program the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) ...

Judy Heumann was denied enrollment to a Brooklyn elementary school as a 5-year-old girl due to her use of a wheelchair, which she needed as a result of polio. She spent her summers at a New York camp ...

What did you learn about disabilities as a kid? I grew up in Louisiana and Arkansas in the 1970s and ’80s, and I suspect my experience was typical of that place and era. If there were kids with ...

A new $20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education is set to expand the University of Oregon’s work helping students with disabilities.

The World Bank is supporting disability-inclusive education in Rwanda, Burkina Faso, and Cambodia by training teachers, upgrading school infrastructure, and embedding disability support in school ...

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...