Education is Special for Everyone : How Schools can Best Serve all Students /

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 standar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mulvey, Janet
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Cooper, Bruce S., Accurso, Kathryn, 1953-, Gagliardi, Karen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Chapter One: History of U.S. Special Education; Chapter Two: What about Me?; Chapter Three: The Principal's Role in Supporting All Students; Chapter Four: Where Do We Begin?; Chapter Five: Teacher Preparation; Chapter Six: Level of Instruction in Each Setting; Chapter Seven: Differentiation: Does It Really Work?; Chapter Eight: Outcomes for Mainstreamed, Full-inclusion, and Separate Classrooms; Chapter Nine: Effects of Standardized Testing; Chapter Ten: Urban Problems and Solutions: Funding For All; Chapter Eleven: Recommendations from the Authors; Index.