Low Incidence, High Results

The school day had barely begun Monday morning at South Point Elementary School in Washington when a student in Ann Heinrich’s “low incidence” classroom for children with intense special needs was lying face down on a soft rug, wood blocks strewn around him.

Why the Engineering, Computer Science Gender Gap Persists

Shree Bose, who won the grand prize at this year's Google Global Science Fair, credits her love of science to her big brother, Pinaki. As a child, he had a habit of teaching her what he'd just learned in science class. How atoms work, for example. [More]

Mom says school put her autistic son “in a box”

WAUPUN — It’s a room built for solitary confinement, but it’s not a cell at Waupun State Prison. It’s a...

Gray Matters: Grandparents who are parents again

Editor's note: The Area 1 Agency on Aging commissions freelance writer Carol Harrison to produce Gray Matters every two weeks. More than one in every four U.S. adults is a grandparent, but 1,200 grandparents in Humboldt and Del Norte counties are pulling double duty. They are among the one in 12 grandparents stepping in as parents when their children are unable or unwilling to care for their ...