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EdWeek: Learning-disabled enrollment dips | EdNewsColorado

EdWeek: Learning-disabled enrollment dips | EdNewsColorado

EdWeek: Learning-disabled enrollment dips

Editor’s note: This Education Week article is one result of a partnership between EdNews Colorado and the weekly education journal, allowing us to provide in-depth stories from a national perspective.

By Christina A. Samuels
Education Week

After decades of what seemed to be an inexorable upward path, the number of students classified as learning-disabled declined from year to year over much of the past decade —a change in direction that is spurring debates among experts about the reasons why.

The percentage of 3- to 21-year-old students nationwide classified as having a “specific learning disability”