Special Education Resources, Blogs and Real-Time Supports
The Week in Education Scholastic Review of Education in the News.
Center for Teacher Quality a high-quality education system for all students, driven by the bold ideas and expert practices of teachers.
ReadWriteThink Resources galore.
Funshine This blog offers special education resources organized by content area, including Common Core, differentiated instruction, behavior management, and more. Sign Up for the Newsletter.
SpEdChange This blog, maintained by Ira David Socol, narrows in on educational opportunities for students with special needs and unique learners.
Wright'sLawBlog A look at the legal side of special education and advocacy.
Free Resources from the Net for Every Learner The web is full of great educational resources. Use this blog to more easily find them, especially those which cater to the needs of students with learning disabilities.
ADDitude Blogs: Read blogs written by those struggling with ADHD, teachers, and parents on this great site focused on the condition.
On Special Education: Education Week shares the latest on special education topics through this blog.
Special Education and Disability Rights Blog: Do you know what rights your students have under the law? Read this blog to learn more about the education advocacy issues related to special education and how you can help.
Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Education historian Diane Ravitch discusses education, both in the past and in the future, through this blog.
Edutopia We are dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process through innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives.
Mindshift Technology is revolutionizing the world of education – replacing familiar classroom tools and changing the way we learn.
Edudemic The goal of Edudemic is to connect teachers, administrators, students, and just about everyone else with the best technology on the planet.
The Learning Network The New York Times Learning Network is a free blog for teachers, students and parents that provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content.
LarryFerlazzo Larry shares daily web resources, classroom lessons, updates on the latest education-related research, and educational policy links. Many relate to teaching English Language Learners, and others related to mainstream K-12 teachers and students.
Thinkfinity has 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students. At Thinkfinity.org, you'll find primary source materials, interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists to help you tailor materials to meet your needs.
Teaching Tolerance A place for educators to find thought-provoking news, conversation and support for those who care about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools.
What Works Clearinghouse We review the research on the different programs, products, practices, and policies in education.Then, by focusing on the results from high-quality research, we try to answer the question “What works in education?” Our goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.
PBS Learning Media is a new, free, online media-on-demand service developed for PreK-12 educators featuring interactives, images, video, audio files and more with lesson plans, background essays, and discussion questions.
The Edublogger Welcome to The Edublogger – A blog that helps educational bloggers with emerging technologies in education! The Edublogger has been set up by Edublogs — “the largest education community on the Internet” where you can sign up for a free WordPress-powered blog — and is dedicated to helping educational bloggers with emerging technologies in education, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium.
Free Technology 4 Teachers The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms.
Project Ideal This Website is part of a teacher preparation program intended to better prepare teachers to work with students with disabilities.
All Learners Learning Every Day ALL-ED is a network of instructional routines that have been pulled from extensive empirical base on learning and motivation. The routines are integrated into a practical dynamic network that teachers can use on their feet in the classroom to ensure that all learners are learning every day. Pilot research suggests that ALL-ED has a significant impact of both participating teachers and their students. Fordham faculty research grants were used to support the pilot research for ALL-ED.