History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Learning-disabled enrollment dips after long climb
- 09-08-2010
-
By Christina A. Samuels/Education Week
After decades of what seemed to be an inexorable upward path, the
number of students classified as learning-disabled declined from year
to year over much of the past decade—a change in direction that is
spurring debates among experts about the reasons why. The
percentage of 3- to 21-year-old students nationwide classified as
having a “specific learning disability” dropped steadily from 6.1
percent in the 2000-01 school year to 5.2 percent in 2007-08, according to the most recent data available,
which comes from the U.S Department of Education’s 2009 Digest of
Education Statistics. In numbers, that’s a drop from about 2.9 million
students to 2.6 million students. (more…)
Send this
Print this
