More kids than ever need special education, but burnout has caused a teacher shortage

By Kimber Wilkerson, Professor of Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A growing number of students in public schools – right now, about 15% of them – are eligible for special education services. These services include specially designed instruction for students with autism, learning or physical disabilities, or traumatic brain injuries. But going into the current school year, more than half of U.S. public schools anticipate being short-staffed in special…

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~	Texas Targets Doctor Over Gender-Affirming Care Ban

~	Australia Jailing Children as Young as 10

~	When there is no homeland: Stateless people of the former USSR

~	Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal

~	New report reveals that targets to save 30% of the ocean by 2030 aren’t being met

~	U.S. national debt is its Achilles’ heel, but China sees it as an opportunity

~	How Black music record stores shaped the sound of the UK

~	Russia’s ‘meat grinder’ tactics in Ukraine have proved effective in past wars – but at terrible cost

~	Existential uncertainty: how it affects your mind – and what you can do about it

~	The 2026 Commonwealth Games will create an economic model that allows smaller nations to step up and host