Americans are a compassionate people who rightly have committed themselves to providing special education—education devoted to the needs of children with physical or mental disabilities. The Federal commitment to special education, unfortunately, has been very badly managed. Federal special education law does not serve the American people well—nor the children who need special education.
That's the argument of Waste Land: Special Education. Discussing that argument, and special education reform more broadly, will be report author David Randall (Director of Research, National Association of Scholars), Jonathan Butcher (Acting Director, Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy, The Heritage Foundation), and Miriam Kurtzig Freedman (School Attorney, Teacher, and Author).
Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, January 20, at 2 pm ET for this special education webinar event.
Viewers are invited to read some of the participants' work on special education before the webinar:
Jonathan Butcher: Education Choice and Other State Remedies to Resolve Teacher Shortages for Children with Special Needs.
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman: 50 years of special education in the U.S.: Where we are now—the good, the bad, and the need for a new law; Special Education: Its Ethical Dilemmas, Entitlement Status, and Suggested Systemic Reforms.
