Summary of Findings from the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education

In 2001, President Bush ordered the creation of the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education. The Commission held hearings and meetings throughout the nation and listened to the concerns and comments from parents, teachers, principals, education officials and the public…

Why Can’t My 4th-Grader Write? Part 3

The process of learning to write is complicated.

you have to learn how to form those squiggles on the paper into letters
you have to perceive the sounds in words and associate them with letters to attempt spelling, and
you have to have some picture for what you are trying to say…