We document the characteristics of children and young adults identified in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as having a learning disability and study whether legislative changes in diagnosis criteria have had a noticeable effect determining who receives a diagnosis. We further document that children and young adults identified as a having a…

In this brief, we leverage data from eight school districts, known as the CORE districts, to describe students with disabilities (SWD) by their characteristics, outcomes, and transitions into and out of special education. We found that the most common disability type was a specific learning disability. Relative to their representation among…

In 2021, the EdWeek Research Center fielded a survey to learn more about teachers' perspectives regarding instructional practices that can help students with learning differences to succeed. In the survey, researchers defined this population to include students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia) and students with other…

These are the appendixes for the report, "College Enrollment and Completion among Texas High School Graduates with a Disability." The study used student-level administrative data from Texas, available through the data repository at the Texas Education Research Center at the University of Texas. The data repository contains administrative…

The purpose of this evaluation of Scholastic's "System 44" conducted by RMC Research was to expand the existing research on students with learning disabilities by conducting a randomized study of struggling readers with approximately half of the sample comprised of students with learning disabilities. Specifically, this evaluation…