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High school students suffering from severe mental health and behavioral disorders aren’t always getting the services they need, according to one of the findings of a five-year study led by Special Education Prof. Lee Kern.
“Interventions are available that are very successful at reducing the... Read more »
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It is auspicious that the U.N. International Day of the Girl Child falls on October 11, 2015, close on the heels of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. As the U.N. sets out to attain gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2030, the occasion provides an opportunity to highlight how adolescent girls are taking control of their... Read more »
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For the analysis, Tessie Rose Bailey, a special education professor at Montana State University Billings, and Perry Zirkel, a professor of education and law at Lehigh University, assessed the number of court decisions across the country over the 34-year period by searching an electronic database of special education case law alongside... Read more »