Editor’s note: This post contains snippets about stories, resources, and observations that the SET authors didn’t quite develop into full-blown posts over the past week. I’m hoping we can catch up with our in-boxes, but we didn’t want you, Dear Readers, to miss them. Some of them may later appear as a part (or parcel) of a full-blown post.—JohnL
The Learning Disability Association of America announced that registration rates for its annual conference, LDACON64, will increase on 16 November 2026. Those who want to attend the meeting (to be held in Las Vegas, NV, in February 2027) may still register at the “early bird” rates through 15 November 2026 at this site.
I’ve been tracking what some teachers have written about their experiences with Direct Instruction following the release of Sold a Story 3; the draft post about what I’ve found is out of control, so it’s noting coming soon. However, I cannot sit on Kevin Huffman’s recounting of his experience as a beginning teacher. I encourage readers to read what he reported 9 November 2026 in “How Direct Instruction — and Its Blowback — Radicalized Me: Sold a Story’s second season retraces my first years teaching in Houston, and the experiences that shaped my career.”
Jack McElaney sent a notice about the latest issue of Accessibility in the News on 13 November 2026 (tardy because of Microsoft’s Earthwide outage-slowdown). Readers can find the online version for 6 November 2026 on its page at Microassist.
the Institute of Education Sciences announced that it had awarded $1.5 million over two years to the National Academies for a “Consensus Study of Literacy Across the Life Span.” Those who scan the IES page about the funding or the National Academy Web page about the project will find that there is not a word about disability in reading. Sigh.