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Education Is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
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2014
Summary
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special needs into the regular classroom has brought both benefits and concerns for average and above average students.
Special education in the United States has evolved from institutional and segregated environments to inclusion in the regular education classrooms. We examine how the practice has affected all students and question whether this change has created equal opportunity for those students without special education needs.
This book researches and reports on issues of current practice: e.g., teacher preparation, placement of students with special needs, implications for the average and above in the classroom and the financial costs driving placement decisions in the education system.
We examine the lowering of standards so all can pass tests, report on loss of engagement of students by middle school, and mourn the squandering of creativity to appease a mandate.
Sir Ken Robinson relates that, “Education is meant to take us into a future we cannot even grasp.” Yet we continue on a road that lowers our educational ranking internationally.
We recommend to provide services for all students, and take the system from its current state to one that provides a “Free and appropriate education for all!”
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0764-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0765-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
167
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Introduction No access
Chapter One: History of U.S. Special Education No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter Two: What about Me? No access Pages 7 - 24
Chapter Three: The Principal’s Role in Supporting All Students No access Pages 25 - 40
Chapter Four: Where Do We Begin? No access Pages 41 - 52
Chapter Five: Teacher Preparation No access Pages 53 - 70
Chapter Six: Level of Instruction in Each Setting No access Pages 71 - 88
Chapter Seven: Differentiation: Does It Really Work? No access Pages 89 - 100
Chapter Eight: Outcomes for Mainstreamed, Full-inclusion, and Separate Classrooms No access Pages 101 - 112
Chapter Nine: Effects of Standardized Testing No access Pages 113 - 124
Chapter Ten: Urban Problems and Solutions: Funding For All No access Pages 125 - 140
Chapter Eleven: Recommendations from the Authors No access Pages 141 - 158
