Coreen often arrives smiling and eager to our 10th-grade criminal-justice classroom in our rural high school. But when ...

Ivan was a fourth grader with big brown eyes, a wide smile and a quiet demeanor who refused to enter my classroom. “Everyone thinks I’m stupid,” he’d say. I’ve changed his name to protect his privacy.

As Brookline’s public schools get ready to welcome back students, a recent debate has raised questions regarding the district’s use of inclusionary classrooms, which put special education and general ...

Parents and teachers of Dorchester's Henderson Inclusion School rallied against its proposed closure ahead of a Boston School ...

The education of children with disabilities is a complex issue more than 30 years after “inclusive education” appeared for the first time in an important 1994 United Nations statement. Children with ...

For the past 25 years, U.S. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. It seems a ...

When Lyndsey Hansen and her husband learned their daughter Andraya’s preschool class in Longview wanted to group her with students with special needs, they were torn about what to do. Hansen said her ...

Allali is a leadership coach and a member of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Community Advisory Board. She lives in Clairemont. A new year is a time to reflect and more importantly to hope that the best ...