Department of Education

This webinar recording features a panel discussion with students and experts on how youth-serving adults can best support students transitioning from non-traditional settings, such as alternative schools, to traditional school settings. Panelists discussed how teachers and school staff can create a more welcoming and positive learning environment and provided examples ...

This module provides participants with resources to increase their awareness of the ethnic and cultural diversity within the deaf community. This module examines identity and intersectionality among deaf people from lived experiences of deaf people. This module provides tools for students, instructors of deaf students, professionals with deaf coworkers, managers ...

This resource (PDF, 27 pages) suggests evidence-based policies, practices, and programs that schools can implement to maintain a safe, inclusive, supportive, and fair learning environment where all students can learn, grow, and become successful. The guide identifies these five guiding principles:  Foster a sense of belonging through a positive, safe, welcoming, ...

ED released a letter to governors, chief state school officers, and school district and school leaders, urging them to end corporal punishment in schools—the practice of paddling, spanking, or otherwise imposing physical punishment on students. This letter reinforces ED's position that corporal punishment in schools should be replaced with evidence-based ...

The WWC released online training and certifications for the updated WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook, Version 5.0. There are three levels of certification: Group Design, Advanced Group Design, and Single-Case Design. After completing the free training, reviewers can take a multiple-choice exam to become certified to review studies under WWC ...

This report (PDF, 28 pages) provides the first comprehensive review of the activities 2017 Teacher and School Leader (TSL) grantee districts prioritized with their TSL funds and how well these activities aligned with the key aspects of the program. The report is based on interviews conducted near the end of ...

This fact sheet explores data on special education services used by students identified with a traumatic brain injury. Learn more. 

This webpage offers guidance for students planning to transfer college or universities. The webpage explores the impact that transferring schools can have on federal student aid and provides a list of recommended actions to maximize federal aid at a new school. Additional resources are provided. Learn more.  ...

This guide describes key issues that education researchers should consider when deciding which study data to share, how to organize the data, what documentation to include, and where to share their final dataset. The guide also provides strategies for addressing those challenges and includes links to other resources, a checklist ...

The OCR released three new resources to help students, parents, coaches, athletic directors, and school officials evaluate whether a school is meeting its legal duty to provide equal athletic opportunity regardless of sex. The overview resource provides examples of the kinds of situations that could, depending upon facts and circumstances, ...