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		<title>Cleveland may need hundreds more special ed teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/29/cleveland-special-ed-teachers-23156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: A ruling by an arbitrator in response to a teacher complaint could force the Cleveland school district to hire hundreds more special education teachers. Cleveland&#8217;s union contract requires that each inclusion classroom be team taught full-time by a general education teacher and a special education teacher. Presently, the district more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Teachers need training to help kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/15/wendy-portillo-suspension-18426/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Board let Wendy Portillo keep tenure after allowing students to &#8216;vote out&#8217; child with Asperger&#8217;s Editorial writers at the Palm Beach [FL] Post say it was a mistake for the Port St. Lucie school district to allow Wendy Portillo to return to the classroom. Portilllo led her kindergarten students in voting 5-year-old Alex Barton out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bronx teachers: Principal ordered inflation of special ed grades</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/05/inflate-special-ed-grades-17824/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Daily News: Teachers at the prestigious Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx have accused the principal of ordered them to inflate the grades of students with disabilities. They said they were instructed to change failing grades to passing for some students who hadn&#8217;t done any work and hadn&#8217;t attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loudoun teacher implicated in Cedric Napoleon&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/20/loudoun-teacher-implicated-16821/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From federal documents, the Washington Post, WJLA TV, Washington: Federal authorities have identified Dawn Marie Hamilton, a special education teacher at Loudoun County&#8217;s Park View High School, as the teacher who was implicated in the 2002 death of 14-year-old Cedric Napoleon in Texas. Legislators at a congressional hearing on the use of restraints in schools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students in special ed more likely to have inexperienced teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/07/special-ed-teachers-15952/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post: Federal data show a widespread shortage of certified special education teachers, coupled with high attrition rates and a rapidly growing student population. At the same time, colleges are not producing enough graduates to meet the demand. The result: students with disabilities are far more likely than their typical peers to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marlee Matlin: Let children be heard</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/03/marlee-matlin-13599/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Educators reached for the tissues this week when Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin delivered the keynote address at the Council for Exceptional Children&#8217;s national convention in Seattle. Her message: A big thank-you to those who speak up on behalf of people who can&#8217;t speak for themselves. &#8220;I know,&#8221; she told the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transition planning still difficult for families, educators</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/16/transition-planning-difficult-12052/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Education Week: More than three decades after the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, transition planning continues to be a challenge for students, parents and educators. With about half of students with disabilities planning to pursue postsecondary education, many are finding it tough to navigate without the active IDEA-mandated support that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching inclusive classrooms is difficult, educators say</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/06/inclusive-teaching-11233/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[curriculum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Hartford Courant: Differentiated instruction allows teachers to tailor lessons to students with different abilities in the same classroom, and has been on the rise in Connecticut since a 2002 federal court ruling ordered more inclusion of kids with disabilities in regular classrooms. Educators say the method is very demanding and difficult, and requires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special-ed teachers suspended for refusing to give tests</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/06/teachers-suspended-11226/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/06/teachers-suspended-11226/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NOT2BEMISSED]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Seattle Times: The Seattle School district has suspended two special education teachers for refusing to administer a standardized test to six students with physical and cognitive disabilities. Parents said the teachers were honoring their wishes; teachers said the test was inappropriate for the students. &#8220;My kid is basically the equivalent of a toddler,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many teachers not trained to handle students with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/10/teachers-not-trained-disabilities-9378/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asperger's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Palm Beach [Florida] Post: Florida kindergarten teacher Wendy Portillo sparked a controversy last year when she allowed her students to vote to remove a child with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome from her classroom. But parents, educators and disability advocates say the case highlights an often overlooked problem with the inclusion of children with disabilities in [...]]]></description>
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