Tag: Thomas Hehir

  • Nation & World

    Disabilities, pushed to the side

    Students with disabilities explain how they got to Harvard in a book by Professor Thomas Hehir, Ed.D. ’90, and co-authors, including Laura Schifter, Ed.D. ’14, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hehir and Schifter shared some of the stories in a recent talk at the Ed Portal.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Minority students more likely to be labeled “mentally retarded”

    When compared with their white counterparts, African-American children were almost three times more likely to be labeled “mentally retarded,” according to a paper by Thomas B. Parrish, managing research scientist…

    1 minute