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More students are getting extra help to accommodate a range of issues including ADHD and anxiety, data show, with a disproportionate amount of those receiving support attending schools in wealthier districts.
The disproportionate use of accommodations ''unfortunately increases the gap between the haves and the have-nots in our schools,"... Read more »
Perry Zirkel, a professor emeritus at Lehigh University who has studied lawsuits against schools after students’ suicide deaths, said the number of lawsuits was rising, though the suits are rarely decided in favor of the families.
“I do see an increasing number of liability cases,” Mr. Zirkel said, “in the wake of a tragic suicide, the... Read more »
Lehigh’s College of Education will continue to provide services to the community, building on the Community Voices Clinics that opened in 2012 in both Broughal Middle School and Donegan Elementary School. That effort was headed by Lehigh’s Arpana Inman, counseling psychology professor and the chair of the department of... Read more »
What happens when students opt out of assessments required to demonstrate proficiency for promotion? Perry A. Zirkel, professor emeritus of education and law at Lehigh University, analyzes the current trend among court decisions where grade retention is at issue, through cases... Read more »
Brittany Zakszeski, a Ph.D. student in the school psychology program at Lehigh University’s College of Education, is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected in 2017 to receive a highly competitive $15,000 P.E.O. Scholar Award. She will speak on June 1 at the organization’s 80th annual Pennsylvania state... Read more »