Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More

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1. Find out why schools still disproportionately suspend and punish special-needs kids.

By Katherine Reynolds Lewis in the Atlantic

2. Despite the sharing economy buzz, the number of self-employed Americans is going down.

By Josh Zumbrun and Anna Louie Sussman in the Wall Street Journal

3. Antibiotic resistant bacteria just got worse.

By Rachael Rettner and LiveScience

4. Even states that lost President Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ enacted education reforms.

By William G. Howell in EducationNext

5. Is domestication the last option for the world’s rhinos?

By Carly Nairn in Guernica Magazine

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