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ED Announces Augustus F. Hawkins Center of Excellence Program
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
17 February, 2023
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced the first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants with awards totaling over $18M. The program, “[N]amed for Augustus F. Hawkins, the first Black politician elected to the U.S...
ABC or 123? How Reading Can Get in the Way of Math Achievement and What to Do About It
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
14 February, 2022
Most math materials suffer from the same problem—readability—which is problematic for students with learning disabilities. Here's how we developed word problems that are more accessible without sacrificing the math.
FutureEd Analyzes Expenditures of Stimulus Dollars
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
16 June, 2023
FutureED has begun to analyze the use of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) funds, authorized through three stimulus bills related to COVID-19. Starting with California, which received the largest share of funds, FutureED...
OCR Publishes Annual Review of Services
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
5 May, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has published its report to the President and the Secretary of Education for the fiscal year 2022. In FY 2022, OCR processed a massive increase in complaints, totaling 18,804. 32% were...
EAI: Improving Math Performance with Engaging Problems
Content type: Page
Last Updated:
25 January, 2019
Over the past 20 years, Dr. Brian Bottge and the Department of Early Childhood, Special Education, & Rehabilitation Counseling at The University of Kentucky, have been developing and testing an instructional method called Enhanced Anchored Instruction (EAI...
Speaker Bios
Content type: Page
Last Updated:
7 July, 2021
Read the biographies of the speakers at Special Education Legislative Summit 2021.
SELS
Early Career Researcher Workshop
Content type: Page
Last Updated:
3 February, 2021
The Early Career Researcher Workshop Series is for junior faculty in a tenure-track position and for those in post-doc positions with plans to seek a tenure-track position. You must have finished your Ph.D. to participate in this Workshop Series. We will...
CECDR
“Mental Health in Schools” is Topic of National Summit
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
27 April, 2023
On May 1, 2023, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is convening a group of national school mental health experts to identify collaborative approaches to building sustainable systems of school mental health supports across the nation. The leaders...
Policy & Advocacy Committee
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Last Updated:
6 May, 2024
Policy & Advocacy DCDT Committee
DCDT
New Report Shares Best Practices for Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning in Schools
Content type: SET Blog
Posted:
12 November, 2021
This week, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), a non-profit specializing in social and emotional learning (SEL), published a report sharing insights from their Collaborating Districts Initiative (CDI) on sustaining SEL...