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- The decline likely reflects some of the learning difficulties and health concerns students with disabilities and their families faced during the height of the pandemic, which limited or paused special education services in many school districts, noted Pew research analyst Katherine Schaeffer.
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Jul 24, 2023 · Between the 2000-01 and 2021-22 school years, all but 12 states experienced growth in their disabled student populations. The biggest increase occurred in Utah, where the disabled student population rose by 65%. Rhode Island saw the largest decline of 22%.
- Katherine Schaeffer
Katherine Schaeffer is a research analyst at Pew Research...
- Katherine Schaeffer
Aug 30, 2023 · “While special education enrollment bounced back to pre-pandemic levels in the 2021–22 school year, overall public school enrollment remained flat.” Other highlights from the data: The most common type of disability for preK-12 students involves “specific learning disabilities,” such as dyslexia.
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- Panel of Experts
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- What We Know
- What We Don’t Know
- What We Need to Know
- Impact No. 4: Unexpected Upsides
- Looking Ahead: Priorities for Research
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Lauren Morando-Rhim, Center for Learner Equity Sumeyra Ekin, Center for Learner Equity
Sarah Hurwitz, College of Education, Indiana University Bloomington Robin Lake, Center on Reinventing Public Education Temple Lovelace, Duquesne University Valerie Mazzotti, Cato College of Education, UNC Charlotte Lauren Morando Rhim, Center for Learner Equity Laura Stelitano, RAND Corporation Kristin Wright, Sacramento County Ofice of Education
Sarah Hurwitz, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Indiana University Bloomington Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education Temple Lovelace, Associate Professor of Special Education, Duquense University Valerie Mazzotti, Professor, Cato College of Education, UNC Charlotte Lauren Morando Rhim, Executive Director and Co-Foun...
Many students with disabilities did not receive the same quantity or quality of specialized therapies they received before the pandemic, due to shortened school days and the challenges of remote instruction. Students with disabilities experienced higher rates of absenteeism, incomplete assignments, and course failures compared to their typical peer...
The true scope of the impacts of service interruptions in terms of students’ progress, including regression in basic skills among students with intensive needs, remains unclear. How the pandemic has afected the social and emotional development of students with disabilities is also unknown.
Understanding how the pandemic has afected the education and support services of students with disabilities is critical to informing policy and practice. In the current absence of data, a growing number of due-process complaints and investigations by the U.S. Department of Education confirm anecdotal reports that these students have not consistentl...
“We have their eyes looking right at us, and it’s not painful for them. . . . It’s beautiful.” – New York City special-education kindergarten teacher Tracy Murray, whose students with autism found it easier to converse with their peers on Zoom than in person. Not all the data emerging for students with disabilities are negative. In fact, some stude...
Our review provides some, albeit limited, insight into how students with disabilities have been participating in their education since the beginning of the pandemic. But our main insight is just how little we know. Research to date has failed to tell us much, if anything, about the impacts of the pandemic on the academic and social-emotional develo...
We have only just begun to understand the experiences of students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our recovery starts with a full accounting of the diverse impacts on students, educators, and families, including the potential innovations and benefits that virtual communications and learning platforms may aford. However, fully accoun...
Jul 31, 2023 · In the last decade, the percentage of students in special education in schools has increased from about 13 percent of the total student population in 2011-12, to almost 15 percent in...
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Principals made the challenges associated with hybrid learning clear: increased workloads, stress, and anxiety for educators; a decreased capacity to support students with special needs or disabilities; unrealistic expectations on teachers, as they were asked to be in two places at once; lower rates of student attendance, participation, and enga...
Dec 6, 2022 · Among kids ages 6 and older, special education enrollment rose by 2.4% compared with the previous school year, according to federal data. The figures also showed a large drop in enrollment for younger, preschool-age students, many of whom were slow to return to formal schooling.
C2. Special education teachers. The majority of schools (85%) reported having at least one full-time special education teacher. Elementary schools were more likely to report having students waiting for assessment (93%) than secondary schools (81%).
