Hello and welcome to the fourth issue of the second volume of the weekly newsletter, Special Education Today. This issue covers the week beginning 20 June 2022.

There is no new structure in this issue. Same old same old. Readers will find the contents quite familiar. There is a status report, some notes of appreciation to readers, a table listing the contents from the past week, and a little commentary.

Please feel free to read it all on the Web at https://www.specialeducationtoday.com. And please feel free to share it widely.

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Status update

As in the last few weeks, SET’s subscription rate is holding essentially steady. There were the same number of subscribers as there were previously. I am, of course, hoping to see the number of free and paid subscribers increase. To help accelerate growth, I hope you are telling administrators, teachers, parents, and others about SET.

I doubt that people new to SET found it lying on their lawns or driveways. To the extent that you, dear readers (new and long-standing), share SET posts and recommend SET to colleagues, friends, neighbors, fellow travellers, you help boost the base. Thanks!

Recognition (AKA: Flashes of the electrons)

As regular readers will recognize, I’m happy to acknowledge the contributions of readers who comment on posts, register their “likes,” and let people on other media know about SET. Here are recent data:

Comments

Dan H. and Mike G. dropped comments this past week. Thanks to them for providing notes that amplify, correct, extend, and contextualize my drivel! (By the way, only paid subscribers can comment on posts.)

Likes

Clayton K. (4x!), Betsy T., Jean C., Anna Paula M., Joel M., and Lorraine S. each registered likes on posts this past week. Thanks!

I have little memory about what’s been happening on social media recently. But, I hope readers will help SET by retweeting appropriate notices and posting your own follows-tweets-etc. about content even when I don’t.

Table of contents

Though there were fewer posts than usual this past week, I still consider them worthy of mentioning. So, here are the messages I posted to the Web site recently.

• Musical interlude #1: “Walk on By” by Diana Krall— https://www.specialeducationtoday.com/p/musical-interlude-1

• Source for scholarships for post-secondary education for students with disabilities: Ever wished you could find funding for technical school or college...?—https://www.specialeducationtoday.com/p/source-for-scholarships-for-post

• Great questions!—https://www.specialeducationtoday.com/p/great-questions/comments

Make sure you go to the Web site to see the most current content; new posts will drop throughout the coming week. You’ll find an HTML-formated version of this newsletter (much prettier than this version that comes in the e-mail) as well as any newer posts.

Commentary

I was a tad disengaged this past week. It probably would be more accurate to say that I was engaged in activities other than SET. As I mentioned in these posts (“pages?”) two weeks ago, my big sister died 9 June 2022. She was “80 an’ a half” (as young children often do, we oldsters include part years when we report our ages).

There were many family members in town. There was a powerful lot of visiting to be done, memories to be swapped, events to attend.

Thanks those of you who sent me condolences. Very kind.

JohnL

SET Editor
Charlottesville

SET should not be confused with a product with the product that uses the same name and is published by the Council for Exceptional Children. SET predated CEC’s publication by decades. Despite my appreciation for CEC, this product is not designed to promote that organization.