With the extended school closures due to COVID-19 throughout the United States, students are having to learn in entirely new ways and facing challenges when it comes to learning during these unprecedented times. The Continuity of Learning resource database offers information, tools, and resources to help educators, parents and families, and related service providers meet the educational, behavioral, and emotional needs of children and youth with disabilities through remote and virtual learning.
This infographic document outlines how districts can examine discipline data, including exclusionary practices, among subgroups of students, to create "risk ratios."
The Excel spreadsheet application and user's guide are tools to aid states in their assessment of racial/ ethnic disproportionality. The spreadsheet application calculates several disproportionality...
The Significant Disproportionality Calculator is a spreadsheet application that the IDEA Data Center (IDC) created to help states analyze their data, make determinations of significant...
Racial and ethnic inequities in school discipline are widespread and persistent, even in schools implementing PBIS with fidelity. Yet integrating components of a multicomponent equity-centered...
The purpose of this study was to examine discipline disproportionality among schools implementing SWPBIS compared to the entire population of schools in the U.S. Examining...
This research summary explores the school psychologist shortage, emphasizing the regional and differences in which these shortages take place and preparation program availability.
This report analyzes data on special education and STEM teacher shortages in Washington State and outlines a number of potential solutions at the school, district...
This report summarizes responses to a series of focus groups of educators of color in various areas, including special educators, and case studies of the...
This report from the Georgia Department of Education analyzes the results of a survey of over 50,000 Georgia educators on the main factors leading to...
This report analyzes teacher shortage data in Illinois, including longitudinal data that demonstrates critical shortage areas, and identifies promising approaches to alleviating shortages in these...
This report investigates the effects of Florida's Statewide program designed to increase the supply of teachers in designated "hard-to-staff" areas, such as special education.
This guidebook supports Connecticut districts to create, implement and sustain initiatives for the selection and hiring of high-quality and diverse educator candidates. It includes a...
This interactive dashboard uses data from the 2018-2019 Colorado Educator Shortage Survey to compare educator shortages throughout the State in various endorsements, including endorsement areas...
This report highlights data on the teacher workforce in the State of California. This includes an examination of the trends in areas of critical shortage...
This research report from the Learning Policy Institute presents an overview of special education shortages in California. This report examines possible root causes and key...
Youth and family involvement in the transition plan are important components of a successful plan. Family support is a powerful, preventive mechanism that supports youth...
In 2006, the U.S. Department of Education developed a Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities (Tool Kit) to support the Department’s initiative...
During the 2013-2014 school year, the U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collected data taking a look at key education...