ASCD’s The Value of Each Voice: 2010 Year in Review recognizes the association’s contributions to thought leadership, highlights established communities of expertise, and shares ASCD’s commitment to pushing forward toward new horizons. ASCD Executive Director Gene R. Carter officially released the annual report to the public at last week’s Annual Meeting. In 2011, we continue to structure program offerings to meet members’ individual needs and provide face-to-face and virtual opportunities to interact with colleagues across states and nations and around the world.
In a tough year for education—both in the United States and abroad—ASCD continued to succeed at
Every April we recognize National Autism Awareness Month and the special challenges faced by those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). CDC estimates that an average of 1 in 110 children in the U.S. have an ASD. At the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we continue to strive to meet the complex needs of all people with ASD and their families.
ASD symptoms range from mild to severe and the condition may pose significant communication and behavioral challenges. There is no cure, but we know that early intervention can greatly improve a child’s development. The first three years are particularly critical. That’s why we are educating more health professionals to recognize the signs and symptoms early, so children can get treatment when it is most likely to be effective.
Last year, we established a new national resource and information center to provide information on community-based services and interventions for people with ASD and their families. Last month,
IN THE bad old days, many Americans with disabilities were considered indigent tragedies in need of a cure. Expectations and services improved after World War I, when rehabilitation services were founded for returning soldiers. And then came the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s, which gave rise to a movement demanding equity and autonomy for citizens with disabilities.
By 1968, federal legislation guaranteed them equal protection under the law. By 1975, federal school-funding legislation required schools provide "free appropriate public education" to students with disabilities. And by 1990, the landmark
HACKENSACK — It's Saturday morning and three teams of students sit in a classroom at the middle school anxiously awaiting the next math problem.
On the Smart Board, youngsters are given the following equation 2 + 5X + 4 + 8X. The clock starts ticking.
"You got a minute," Andy Goodman, an instructor, reminds the students. "Talk it out."
The pupils are animated and confer with one another
In 1983, professor William Cronon made his career with Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England,a seminal study of how European settlers transformed the ecosystem of early America. Nearly thirty years later, the now distinguished Cronon, President of American Historical Association, finds his career in the middle of another Change in the Land, of a very different variety.
“Whatever you think of its politics, I don’t think there can be any question that the rise of modern conservatism is one of the great turnaround stories in twentieth-century American history,” Cronon wrote in a March 15 blog post, one that would place him directly in the path of that conservative turnaround, as a conservative think tank requests to snoop about his email (using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)), furthering a well-coordinated assault on Public Employees in Wisconsin and around the nation.
In the post, Cronon – acting as a historian – places Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s union busting in a broader historical context, carefully, fairly, and
We’re living in a time when our collective experience in public education lends further ammunition to Sabrina’s piece, It Wasn’t That Long Ago. I spoke recently with teacher and parent allies in both Rochester, NY and throughout Florida regarding the recent passage of SB 736 in Florida.
Florida teachers protest SB 736
We all had deep concern regarding the drastic effects this bill would bring to Florida, described by NYCEducator as “all stick and no carrot”. SB 736, ironically titled the “Student Success Act”, would eliminate the ability to obtain tenure for teachers hired in Florida after July 1, 2011.
New teachers will be hired on one year contracts and their pay and job securitywill be tied to FCAT standardized test scoresvalue-added student learning metrics. The Miami Herald-Tribune ran a critica
