University of Missouri, Assistant Professor of Special Education
The University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) Department of Special Education (http://education.missouri.edu/SPED/ ) seeks an Assistant Professor (tenure track) or an Assistant Professor of Teaching (non-tenure track) to join a collegial and highly productive department. We seek a person with expertise/interest in the delivery of special education services within the context of general education curriculum, standards, and settings. As such we anticipate candidates will have expertise in one or more of the following: inclusionary practices, teacher education, special education/general education collaboration, co-teaching, and programming for at-risk or struggling learners.
Reconsidering LEA reimbursement
The US Supreme Court will reconsider a case about whether parents who, during a dispute with a local education agency (LEA), are eligible for reimbursement for the costs of having their children educated in a private setting (even though the child has not previously been eligible for special education services). Should parents be reimbursed by the LEA for tuition and etc. when they, based on their own judgment, send their child to a private special education program, even though she has not previously been determined to have a disability by the schools?
This issue was examined by the US Supreme Court in 2007, but the court voted 4-4 in that case; the tie was because Justice Antony Kennedy did not vote, having recused himself because of a prior connection to the case. The new case
LDR&P editorship
As chair of the Publications Committee for the Division for Learning Disabilities, Paige C. Pullen is soliciting applications for the editorship of Learning Disabilities Research & Practice (LDR&P). LDR&P, which is in volume 23 this year and is published four times annually, has historically had widely respected editors: Kenneth Kavale and Susan Vogel; Margo Mastropieri and Tom Scruggs; Deborah Speece and Sharon Vaughn; Addison Stone and Joanne Carlisle; and Charles Hughes.
Click on this link to open a copy of the announcement.
Verano en Mexico
Verano en México 2009
Study abroad in the beautiful city of Guanajuato! On-site cultural and educational experiences and instruction will take place at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, the Universidad de Guanajuato, the Academia Falcon and in public school settings in Guanajuato, México. As part of the program, you will spend the first five days in Mexico City visiting such sites as the world-renowned National Museum of Anthropology, the pyramids at Teotíhuacan, the Frida Kahlo Museuem, the Ballet Folklórico, and the world famous Diego Rivera murals in the National Palace and the Secretary of Education. Participants also meet with educational officials from the Secretary of Education in Mexico City. In Guanajuato, students are placed in regular and special education settings 20 hrs per week for four weeks in public schools. Coursework is provided by faculty from Chile, México, Perú, and the U.S. This is an enriching educational experience that will provide an opportunity to reflect on your own cultural identity and professional practice. See the Verano en México brochure .
As SG, will Gupta promote FC?
Among the questions that senators might ask during the hearings on the nomination of Dr. S. Gupta for the office of US Surgeon General, there is this one: "Dr. Gupta, I'd like to ask you about a contentious subject, the practice of facilitated communication, known as "FC," as a means of helping individuals with disabilities, especially those with Autism, to communicate. During your tenure on influential television news programs carried by CNN, you noted that "literature, studies, and views on FC largely discredit the technique" [link]. However, you then presented summaries of studies, many of them anecdotal, some of which reported supposed successes with facilitated communication [link and link]. Do you anticipate that, if you are confirmed, your office will promote the use of facilitated communication? Moreover, do you anticipate that your office will depend on anecdotes or more rigorous science as a basis of policies?"
Jeff Wagg of the James Randi Educational Foundation: Sanjay Gupta Unfit?;
Jay Green on special ed teachers
Over on his blog, Jay P. Greene has a post entitled "Blaming special ed" that makes a host of important points.
It’s all too common but also completely mistaken to blame special education for the shortcomings of the public k-12 system. If you point out that per pupil spending has more than doubled in the last three decades (adjusting for inflation) while student outcomes have remained unchanged, people blame the rising costs of special education. (See for example Richard Rothstein on this). If you point out that the teaching workforce has increased by about 40% in the last three decades (adjusted for changes in student population), people blame special education (see below). If budgets are tight and programs get cut, people blame special education for draining money from general education.
Read Professor Greene's Blaming special ed.
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Over on Teach Effectively, Jim Kauffman posted a note about people saying things that, upon reflection, amount to nonsense.
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