Journalist – Historian – Speaker
The Center for American Progress has put out an analysis of the role disability plays in suspensions. It confirms what we broadly know, but makes the data case strongly and usefully: Too many young children with disabilities and social or behavioral difficulties are currently living a version of Isaiah’s harrowing early learning experience. According to …
From The Guardian: A Pakistani man who renounced his Muslim faith and became a humanist has had his application for asylum in the UK rejected after failing to correctly answer questions about ancient Greek philosophers. The Home Office said Hamza bin Walayat’s failure to identify Plato and Aristotle as humanist philosophers indicated his knowledge of …
This is a brilliantly executed feature on how hard it is to actually get services from Medicaid in Iowa even if everyone agrees you are owed those services. A Des Moines Register investigation into those 200 cases found an appeal process that presents a thicket of administrative and legal roadblocks to patients and their families, …
“When a reporter asked under what authority they planned to arrest the mayor, one of the Pendragons cited the Magna Carta.” #medievaltwitter https://t.co/2iYrmZvD1e — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) January 14, 2018 A bunch of London racists tried to arrest the Mayor of London. The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, is Muslim. The racists brought a noose and …
NEW PIECE at Pacific Standard “As ICE has intensified operations under the regime of President Donald Trump, disability-related cases and causes have routinely gotten public attention. In part, this has to do with the way that disability commands sympathy and can sometimes generate generous media coverage. It’s easier for immigrant rights groups to command national …
Ruth Colker in the Cardozo Law Review argues that evidence for banning laptops, at most, suggests limited internet access during classroom times requiring content acquisition. Colker writes: Those studies [promoting bans] represent a careful presentation of three artificial experiments where students are assigned their note-taking style— longhand or computer—and in which students have little incentive …
It’s my son’s 11th birthday. Read this! My son is 11 today. Here’s the story of how our friends helps us find our bearings. They refused to stop congratulating us. https://t.co/USJpXKNkOj pic.twitter.com/6QH2BcYDSh — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) January 11, 2018
New piece in Pacific Standard on historical language and victimization claims: As a historian and journalist, the use of these loose metaphors to protect the powerful has concerned me for years. This latest push against serial sexual harassment in media and entertainment, as noted by BuzzFeed journalist (and Pacific Standard contributor) Anne Helen Petersen, has driven …
On NPR, Joe Shapiro has a powerful new series on sexual abuse and intellectual disability. I’ll have more to say about that later in the week. Here’s one reaction though from a fellow parent that’s incredibly important. The author thinks about all the ways that we train folks with Intellectual and developmental disabilities to be …
For Pacific Standard, Robyn Powell writes about the rights of parents with disabilities. Around the country, parents are routinely placed at risk of losing their children due only to the fact that they (the parents) are disabled. She writes: Nearly one in 10 children in the United States are at risk of being removed from …