STAGGERING FAIL RATE IN SPECIAL ED
By KENNETH LOVETT and CARL CAMPANILE
NY POST
There are several things wrong with this little essay. The New York Post rarely, if ever, does serious factual checking, so one would want to check to see if the numbers cited are accurate and reflect the full tenor of the report. Second, the tests cited here are quite controversial. Should special ed students, some quite seriously impaired but still struggling, have the same tests as non impaired students? We are, I think, at the beginning of that conversation rather than the end. And, third, the amount of money put into special education is very slight, even in New York state, which, so far as I know, has one of the better, if not best such programs in the country. |
