Several months ago, The New York Times published a blog by Will Okun, a Chicago high-school teacher who was worried about Etta, a...

The mathematical achievement of students with learning disabilities (LD) seems to be strongly influenced by the way in which mathematical...

More and more, teachers are becoming a major influence in children’s lives; in some cases they’re probably the only emotionally healthy...

In a previous column I discussed the cognitive skills that children can develop to help them cope with academic demands. In this column,...

Inclusive practices in school settings range from placing all children in grade appropriate general education classrooms—full-time—to...

Response to Intervention (RTI) is an approach to identifying reading disabilities in children by assessing children’s ability to learn...

My last column discussed how teachers might establish an overall supportive environment that encourages students to revise their writing....