New Year鈥檚 Eve is a time for reflecting on the year just ended, including the blog posts that got the most attention from On Special Education readers in 2014. In honor of , let鈥檚 revisit this year鈥檚 most-read posts, Top Ten List-style:
Number 10! Good news from early in 2014. But what about of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
Number 9! This old chestnut, from 2008, has been one of my top-read blog posts since I wrote it. Time to revisit the subject?
Number 8! It鈥檚 going to be harder to get a good 鈥済rade鈥� on special education performance, but U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says that鈥檚 OK.
Number 7! A study showing these students could make significant progress should mark a change in expectations for them, says a researcher.
Number 6! The U.S. Supreme Court in October before making a decision to to hear the case.
Number 5! Are we really seeing more cases of children with autism, or are the measurement tools giving us false positives?
Number 4! The website is not too new anymore, because I wrote this blog post in late 2013.
Number 3! In 2013, most states were 鈥渕eeting requirements.鈥� This year, only 15 were.
Number 2! Older students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder receive help, but not necessarily the help they need.
And the most-read blog post in On Special Education in 2014 is ...
I wrote this blog post in 2013, and it was far and away the most-read blog post this year, garnering more than twice as many clicks as the number 2 entry. Part of that traffic was likely driven by a Twitter chat I conducted on the subject in October (which I compiled into a Storify, embedded below). Clearly, this is a topic that deserves more coverage in 2015. What additional stories would you like to see?