Hello! I'm covering the Southtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Taylor.Epps@wkbw.com CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WKBW) — We've all heard of separate programs and classes for ...

A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in ...

Kellen Hedler is actively engaged in his fourth-grade classroom: He raises his hand to correctly answer a math question, he reads prompts out loud for the class and he gathers with classmates to watch ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Abby Taylor ...

Proficiency levels have gone up among special ed students kept in class with their peers. (Jackie Mader/Hechinger Report) When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked ...

This story about special education was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Bethany Jolliffe started ...

Mrs. Alvarez starts her day at 7:30 a.m. with the usual bustle: backpacks thump onto the floor, lunch boxes are unpacked, and a stack of folders marked IEP—short for Individualized Education Program, ...

When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked up on what seemed like a long-standing pattern: Teachers mostly stayed in their lane, with general education teachers ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A prominent ...

Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. She is now an adjunct professor of ...