For more than 30 years, our nation has focused on improving education and workplace preparation. Initially, these efforts were to ensure equal learning opportunities for students, professionalize teaching, increase standards, and produce a “world class” educational system. These efforts grew from concerted attention to an overall educational [...]
Janet Reyes blogs for Climbing The Cinder Cone, a publication that presents resources that may help young people with mental health challenges. Her focus is on situations that "fall through the cracks," where it isn't clear what programs or treatments are appropriate. Falling through the cracks is [...]
For me, finding meaning in life through my work has been dedicated to updating public perceptions and attitudes towards the capabilities of PwD. A focus of these efforts (made possible by many helping hands) is to celebrate the transformative power of achieving the American right to decent [...]
There are now many more adults with disabilities under the age of 35 (comprehensive special education was created through P.L. 94-142 in 1975) who are better prepared for inclusion into higher education, postsecondary, and employment settings. They also have higher expectations of themselves and their chances for success as a [...]
Despite numerous blue-ribbon task forces and resulting legislation (GOALS 2000: Educate America Act of 1994, PL 103-227, etc.), research efforts (National Longitudinal Transition Study I & II), and public/private funding dedicated to investigating methods to improve the workplace literacy of the US workforce (National Adult Literacy Survey, [...]
The Qatar Foundation recently launched the first World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in the capital city of Doha on November 16-18, 2009. Three years in the making, its overall objective is to take on the task improving/providing global access to education for citizens as a basic human right through promoting/scaling/replicating concrete initiatives [...]