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School districts continued to win most disputes over individualized education programs in the year since a U.S. Supreme Court decision affirmed a more ambitious standard for setting goals for students with disabilities, according to a new analysis.
Perry Zirkel, professor emeritus of education and law at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania... Read more »
William Gaudelli, professor of social studies and chair of the department of arts and humanities at Columbia University’s Teachers College, has been named the next dean of Lehigh’s College of Education. He will succeed Gary Sasso, who last year announced his plans to retire after a decade leading the highly regarded College of Education. ... Read more »
A year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools must offer students with disabilities an education reasonably calculated to enable them to "make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances," what has changed? On one hand, not much, if evaluating the dozens of special education cases that have cited the decision. School... Read more »
Lehigh doctoral students and faculty who evaluated a training program for community health workers in rural southeast Haiti have won the 2017 Pittu Laungani Award for best paper published in the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.
The paper, which offers recommendations for building effective volunteer-led... Read more »
Some educators feel bilingualism is "too lofty a goal" for English-language learners with disabilities, an attitude that could limit the educational trajectory of an already underserved population, a Lehigh University study found.
During a seven-month ethnographic study, Sara... Read more »