Kids First

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Where have all the children gone?

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  Where have all the children gone? The number of children who are  not  in public or private schools has exploded since the end of the pand...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Just what we needed, more misinformation

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  Just what we need, more misinformation The Secretary of Health and Human Services has spoken yet again, this time with the President joini...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

You gotta a job!

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  You gotta a job! New regulations went into effect this past April 2024.   Now teachers will receive a license instead of a certificate.  M...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Are the Ten Commandments a Religious Document?

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  Are the 10 Commandments a Religious Document? Turns out, that depends on whom you ask.  Most folks would probably answer yes, but legislat...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Bad school or bad economy

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  Bad school or bad economy The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) released the scores for the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

What is due in due process?

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  What is due in due process? Fifty years ago, when the Education for All Handicapped Children was signed into law, one of the provisions as...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Bigotry is always with us

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  Bigotry is always with us In the few years following WWII, antisemitism was rampant.   Hitler had just engineered the murder of six millio...
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I have been in the field of special education for 57 years. I have taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. I also have been an administrator of a local school system's special education department and the assistant superintendent for special education for the Maryland State Department of Education. Thirty-seven years ago I started The Harbour School a special private school for children with autism, learning disabilities and other learning challenges.
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