Monthly Archives: February 2008

Thanks to Nancy Mamlin, I learned that the National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD; the well-financed, not-for-profit, lobbying group based in New York, NY, US; see earlier entry about Carrie Rozell’s valuable contributions) has a presence of Facebook. I joined.
It’s good to see that this cause has a presence in that venue. Though I [...] Continue reading →

The National Center for Education Evaluation released a report yesterday (28 January 2008) describing preliminary findings from an evaluation of the effects of two supplemental literacy programs focused on improving reading comprehension and school performance of ninth-grade students who have achievement problems. The report, “Enhanced Reading Opportunities: Early Impact and Implementation Findings,” describes the effects [...] Continue reading →

Alert readers will know that I have found fault with the recommendations on about.com about Learning Disabilities, so this post endorsing an article on about.com may come as a surprise. In “How to Choose the Wrong Treatment for Your Child with Autism,” about.com’s Lisa Jo Rudy got a lot right. Ms. Rudy provides an extensive [...] Continue reading →

I dropped an entry into LD Blog about reading fluency that one or two (of the two or three) readers here might find worthwhile. It’s essentially an incomplete catalog of resources about fluency, along with some editorial comments.
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Dear Colleagues,

The new Consortium to Prevent School Violence website is up and running at: http://www.preventschoolviolence.org (alternate URL: http://www.ctpsv.org).

Consortium Mission: The Consortium to Prevent School Violence is committed to assisting educators and schools in the reduction of school violence.

Consortium Goals: The Consortium seeks to foster high quality research on school violence … Continue reading →

The US Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse released new reviews of practices last week. One is about “New Chance” and the other is about “First Things First.” Here are the descriptions of the interventions from the WWC pages (based on what WWC could obtain from publicly available documents).
New Chance:
New Chance, a program for [...] Continue reading →

The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) has launched its revised Web site. CLD, which has been an active and affirmative force in support of Learning Disabilities for many years, sent this message to its members last week.
We are proud to announce the launch of our new website! This website was designed to provide [...] Continue reading →

In a 20 December editorial entitled “The Special Education Bridge to Nowhere” published by Vermont Tiger, Curtis Hier published the accompanying editorial.

The recent study by the Joint Fiscal Office on our tax burden in Vermont reminds me of another JFO study done a few years ago. In 2001, the … Continue reading →

This is the lead from an editorial praising a movie the movie, “Taare Zameen Par.” The movie is generating multiple entries in my Google news searches.
Eagle’s Eye: Every child is special
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s directorial debut, Taare Zameen Par (TZP) focusing on the saga of a dyslexic child, possibly is one of [...] Continue reading →

Sol Stern, who writes regularly about schooling as a contributing editor of City Journal and has long championed school choice alternatives such as vouchers, appears nearly ready to embrace the idea that the problems with education in the US (and perhaps elsewhere, too) have more to do with curricula and teaching than with incentives for [...] Continue reading →