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There are various concerns regarding the identification of students in special education. The over-identification of students refers to the concern that students of color, particularly African American students, are placed in special education at a higher rate than their white student peers, which can lead to potential stigmatization and negative impacts on their educational experiences. [1]
IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990. In 1990, the United States Congress reauthorized EHA and changed the title to IDEA. [1] Overall, the goal of IDEA is to provide children with disabilities the same opportunity for education as those students who do not have a disability.
Because the law does not clearly state to what degree the least restrictive environment is, courts have had to interpret the LRE principle. In a landmark case interpreting IDEA's predecessor statute (EHA), Daniel R.R. v. State Board of Education (1989), it was determined that students with disabilities have a right to be included in both academic and extracurricular programs of general education.
Inclusion has different historical roots/background which may be integration of students with severe disabilities in the US (who may previously been excluded from schools or even lived in institutions) [7] [8] [9] or an inclusion model from Canada and the US (e.g., Syracuse University, New York) which is very popular with inclusion teachers who believe in participatory learning, cooperative ...
Students in the school district's ACHIEVE and SOAR programs attend community-based instruction outings once a month between November and May that allow students to perform practical skills and ...
The data suggest that for every incident of physical attack or fight with a weapon referred to local law enforcement from schools without regular contact with SROs, 2.56 are referred in schools with regular contact with SROs, with p < 0.05. This is after controlling for state statutes that require school officials to refer students to law ...
A field trip for special education students to a Cracker Barrel in Maryland this week has resulted in outcry from teachers and parents.. On Tuesday, a group of 11 students and seven staff members ...
In 1939 Hitler signed the secret euthanasia program decree Aktion T4, which authorized the killing of selected patients diagnosed with chronic neurological and psychiatric disorders. This program killed about 70,000 disabled people before it was officially halted by Hitler in 1941 under public pressure, and it was unofficially continued out of ...