For many families, especially those whose children are disabled or neurodivergent, September is a daunting time. Children ...

The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), passed in 1975, ensures that eligible children with disabilities receive free public education along with the services they need to succeed. The IDEA act ...

A welcoming classroom is more than desks and lessons—it’s a space where every student feels seen, valued, and included. For ...

What assumptions do we make about the students in our classrooms, and how do those assumptions affect students’ experiences? What special considerations come into play for first-generation college ...

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 ...

Teachers play a unique role in the world—not only creating spaces to learn, but also helping students think critically, grow, and feel seen. Keenly aware how important it is to create welcoming ...

Growing up, I was always taught to be inclusive to everyone, especially my classmates who I would see every day. My godbrother has autism, and being inclusive has always been important to me because I ...

The United States does more to ensure access to education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities than many other countries—but the nation’s schools have work to do to ensure all ...

By Dr Vangeepuram Sreenatha Chary The classroom is busy. The teacher explains a lesson, questions are answered, notebooks ...

With greater awareness of gender identity from toddlers to teens comes the responsibility of the people in their lives to recognize, honor, and celebrate these unique differences anywhere—and ...

As a society, we created artificial occupational dichotomies and segregated many occupations, rendering some as the exclusive domain of men and others as that of women. The legacy of exclusions ...