From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Unless you have plenty of money to send your child to top-tier private schools, his educational future is in immediate danger. Budget cuts, budget cuts, budget cuts. Shorter school weeks, fewer services, overloaded and depressed teachers. In his business column, Joe Nocera explained why: Unemployment.
What are the latest unemployment figures? Some 25 million people — more than 16 percent of the work force — are looking for full-time work. Companies are hoarding cash while reporting record profits. Read more...
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A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
To prevent poverty, to give children a decent chance to earn a good living, and to ensure national security, America must ensure that all children—regardless of disability or family income—succeed educationally. If America does not, it will unknowingly promote poverty, crime, mental illness, mass anger, and violence. It will continue to lose its ability to compete with nations whose budgets consistently support educational excellence.
America’s hollow slogans, destructive testing policies, false accountability, teacher-bashing, and savage budget cuts are not commitments to educational quality. They’re abandonment. As Nicholas Kristoff (2011) recently wrote: Read more...
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
A Guest Post by
Staci Greenwald, Esq.
Recently, I received this warning from Staci Greenwald, Esq., an outstanding special education attorney who has a child with special needs. Although the warning focuses on Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in New Jersey, it contains a critical message for parents throughout the country: know the rules and regulations that govern special education in your state or territory, put your concerns and requests in writing, and act quickly. Here’s the warning: Read more...
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