Engaging Students With Learning Differences Early On
Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: http://www.amara.org/en/v/iKI/ Students with learning disabilities are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according...
========== bjbjLULU MARGARET WARNER: Now: how one school
has succeeded in reducing the odds that a student with learning disabilities may drop
out. Past studies have found that these students drop out at more than twice the rate of their
classmates. NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on what can be done
in the classroom to prevent that. It's for our series the American Graduate Project.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: On a recent Friday morning at the Henderson Inclusion Elementary School
in Boston, there was organized chaos as nearly 250 students crowded into the auditorium.
Then it was showtime. The students were celebrating African-American History Month. But the show
was also a celebration of a unique public school where one-third of the student body
...