
A fellow Education Examiner, Andrea Hermitt, has been posting a series of commentaries on special education, one of them sparked by one of my posts. So we've been discussing back and forth the varying viewpoints on special education. Anyone interested in this topic might like to check out her posts:
Problems with the rush to label children
From special ed to gifted to somewhere in between
Resources for parents of special-ed children
One comment from me: I'm not a highly informed observer of special education issues, but I have to take issue with the title of one of these posts.
From special ed to gifted to somewhere in between implies that those are opposite poles. Actually, many disabled students are gifted, so I didn't want to let that stand uncorrected.