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Lawsuits work. Failure to provide accessible technologies for learners with disabilities can have serious consequences for universities. Many institutions have been sued in recent years for noncompliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, ratcheting up pressure around accessibility issues. As a result, some universities are thinking about how they might work together to test the …
Finn Gardiner writes that “zero tolerance” policies disproportionately affect students of color, disabled students, and especially disabled students of color. Spurred by a violent altercation between a school resource officer and a Black student in 2015, South Carolina’s Department of Education introduced guidelines in the Safe Schools Taskforce Report in 2016 to reduce the likelihood …
We are not here for your inspiration. These crappy videos dehumanize Disabled people. If you are about to post this shit, think about why you’re doing it and don’t do it. https://t.co/JajDHCGhIx — WMWDisabilityCaucus (@WMWDisability) November 27, 2017 I see it’s time to refer back to the This Mess rules. 1. Don’t take pictures of …
Guest Post by Eric Weiskott. Weiskott teaches medieval English poetry at Boston College; he’s working on a book about the division of the past into medieval and modern periods. Last month Biloxi School District administrators pulled Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird from the junior high curriculum. “There is some language in the book that makes …
1) A man in PA killed his wife and daughter, then himself. “Some said they had never seen Mary Scully or her adult daughter, who was disabled.” TW: Filicide.https://t.co/CXayRz9NBW — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) November 28, 2017 This tweet is a small thread of resources on filicide in response to a recent story from PA. …
Gizmodo reporter Jennings Brown wrote a great article, “The last of the iron lungs” last week. It’s very well done, with good interviews, a sense of the history of polio, and this: Understandably, Lillard lives in a constant state of anxiety over the functionality of her iron lung. But she said the company responsible for servicing …
The GOP tax plan is intended to limit the potential for higher education to enable class movement. The GOP tax plan is calculated not just to shift wealth upward, but also to remove some of the educational tools that make it possible for people to shift their own class status. It’s not just tuition waivers. …
I wrote about Al Franken. I don’t think I could vote for him. I’m an American citizen, a Minnesotan, and I have one vote. When I look at the ballot in 2020, I won’t use it to support Al Franken. Not now. Possibly not ever. But the GOP can shut the hell up until they …
Last April I wrote about the arrest of John Haywood, a ten year old autistic boy, who sobs as he’s taken to the police career, his mother filming it. The video went viral, as well it should, because it’s awful. I wrote: If the video shocks you, and it should, imagine how often children with …
In the endless litany of horrible things that the Trump administration is doing to disabled folks and their families, I missed this one. According to Foreign Policy, the Trump State Department is slashing funding for diplomats who have disabled children. On Thursday, Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) sent a letter to the …