Financial assistance for graduate students
The Council of Graduate Schools posted a resolution, "Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees and Assistants," regarding offers and acceptances of financial assistance for graduate students. Financial support—scholarships, fellowships, and assistantships—is commonly offered at the same time as an offer of admission for advanced graduate studies, and such offers need to be tendered and accepted within publicly known terms. The resolution affirms that students may entertain more than one offer and, if done appropriately, may renege on an agreement to accept an offer.
Students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial support prior to April 15; earlier deadlines for acceptance of such offers violate the intent of this Resolution. In those instances in which a student accepts an offer before April 15, and subsequently desires to withdraw that acceptance, the student may submit in writing a resignation of the appointment at any time through April 15. However, an acceptance given or left in force after April 15 commits the student not to accept another offer without first obtaining a written release from the institution to which a commitment has been made. Similarly, an offer by an institution after April 15 is conditional on presentation by the student of the written release from any previously accepted offer
For more, including a complete copy of the statement and a list of the signatories, see "Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees, and Assistants."
Summer camp opportunities in Virginia
Camp Baker Services in Chesterfield (VA, US) provides residential summer camp, day summer camp, weekend respite services, emergency respite services, day support services and an after school program for over 590 individuals with disabilities each year. Officials at Camp Baker Services have opportunities for people interested in working with children, youths, and adults, including summer jobs and spring, summer, and fall internships.
"We operate 24 hours a day for 365 days of the year," Shirley O'Brien, the Senior Director at Camp Baker Services, reports. "The individuals who attend our programs range from 6-80 years of age and from mild intellectual delays to severe intellectual and physical delays. We are a fully barrier-free, modern facility on 22 acres."
Iowa post-doc opportunity
Special Education Postdoctoral Scholar
Applications are being accepted for an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) sponsored 2-year special education postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa.
The overall goal of the postdoctoral scholar is to provide the scholar with the knowledge and hands-on experiences needed to conduct rigorous educational research and develop competitive IES grant proposals.
The scholar will work with faculty from a variety of disciplines on a large scale, grant-funded, random control trial (RCT) of the Science Writing Heuristic. The RCT is being conducted in 48 schools and with over 6,000 students throughout the state of Iowa.
Annual salary of $50,000 plus benefits and a large travel and research budget are offered.
U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required. Applicants from under-represented groups and from all ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Potential candidates should have completed a PhD within the last 5 years in special education or a related field.
Required for application: letter of interest, CV, 3 letters of reference, and a writing sample. To apply for this position, visit our website at http://jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc and choose requisition number 1378.
For more information please contact Dr. Bill Therrien at bill-therrien [at] uiowa [dot] edu or 319-3355606.
The University of Iowa is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged.
Kauffman’s ‘Curtains’ paper
Jim Kauffman drafted an editorial expressing his concern that special education has been so substantially undermined that it is near collapse. Here's his lead ('lede?'):
I think we’re approaching the end of special education. By analogy, we’re nearing the final scene of a stage play. Special education is, I think, very near its “curtains.” And we’re perilously close to being unable to rewrite the play while it’s in progress.
You may download a full copy of "Curtains for Special Education: An Open Letter to Educators."
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Costs-benefits of special education
Over on Squidalicious, a guest post by Lea Cuniberti-Duran about "Special Needs Children and Public Education" appears under the title "We Are Not Sparta: The Real, Justified Costs of Educating Kids With Special Needs." Ms. Cuniberti-Duran recounts the argument that schools are hamstrung by the costs of providing special education services.
She then proceeds to provide a clear and powerful dismissal of the canard that special education's costs harm others. Not only does she show how the costs argument leaks (at least with regard to the local education agencies in her geographic area of the US), but also she explains how beneficial special education has been to society as a whole over the past 35 years. Read it!