Special Education

Reports focus on the children and students with disabilities being served under IDEA, Part C or B, nationally and at the state level.

Provides key indicators of the condition of education in the United States. A Congressionally mandated annual report on these indicators is provided to the White House and Congress each year.

Equity and Excellence Commission’s report provides advice to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education on the disparities in meaningful educational opportunities that give rise to the achievement gap.

Task Force on Special Education report discusses effectively educating students with disabilities within the educational system in California.

Federation for Children with Special Needs report explains the special education process so that parents can work effectively with the school as a member of the child’s special education team.

Addresses questions about youth with disabilities in transition by providing information over a 10-year period about a nationally representative sample of secondary school students with disabilities who were 13 to 16 years old and receiving special education services in grade 7 or above.

Report examines a variety of challenges crucial to understanding special education in today’s high schools, including the types of educational settings in which services are provided, the diagnosis of disabilities, overrepresentation of particular student groups, school discipline, academic achievement, high school completion and transitions into adulthood.

Provides an overview of what learning disabilities are, of the impact they have on the lives of children during the school-age years and of the ways that they shape the transition that teens and young adults have when moving from school to post-secondary educational settings and the workplace.

Provides a current snapshot of the state of the special education profession and serves as a foundation for the Council for Exceptional Children leadership and program development.

Discusses how the provision of IDEA-supported programs and services together with IDEA support for research, training, and dissemination, children with disabilities are achieving at levels that would not have been imagined in previous decades.

Scroll on the page to view the full report. Provides basic information about the nature and causes of disproportionality; discusses related policy, procedural, and practice issues; offers recommendations to educators about how to address disproportionality.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

National Reports on the Development of Education submitted by countries since 1933.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.