In the Freakonomics chapter entitled, “What Makes a Perfect Parent?” (I’ll be drawing on this from time to time), the authors make a series of interesting comparisons. They give us a series of factors and ask us to guess which have an effect on our child’s test scores in school, and which don’t. As usual [...]

I’m not a person with any kind of professional authority in the area of special ed. I’m an educator, but not a traditional one; I teach foreigners English abroad, so I have little contact with special education students. Most of my knowledge I have about this I got from a course on special education taken [...]