Education is Special for Everyone (eBook)

How Schools can Best Serve all Students

Kathryn Accurso, Bruce S. Cooper, Karen Gagliardi, Janet Mulvey (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
180 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0765-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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!'

Autor

Janet D. Mulvey Ph.D., is the Educational Director in a College support Program and Assistant Professor in School Leadership at Pace University in New York City.Bruce Cooper is a full professor at Fordham University, New york City Campus. He teaches in the Doctoral Educational Leadership program, and mentors aspiring school leaders.Kathryn AccursoEd.D., has been an elementary school teacher in the Lakeland Central School District for 22 years. She also teaches in the Mercy College School of Education.Karen GagliardiEd.D., is in her eighth year as principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in the Lakeland School District. She has also served as an assistant principal and a fourth grade teacher

Inhalt

Introduction: Overview of the BookCHAPTER 1:History of US Special Education (Cooper)CHAPTER 2: What About Me? The Average and Above in Inclusive ClassroomsCHAPTER 4:Where Do We Begin (Accurso)CHAPTER 5:Teacher Preparation (Mulvey)CHAPTER 6:Level of Instruction in Each Setting (Gagliardi)CHAPTER 7: Differentiation: Does It Really Work? (Accurso)CHAPTER 8:Outcomes for Mainstreamed, Full Inclusion, and SeparateClassrooms (Mulvey)CHAPTER 9:Effects of Standardized Testing (Mulvey)CHAPTER 10:Urban Problems and Solutions: Funding for All (Cooper)CHAPTER 11:Recommendations for the Future (All)Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-0765-1 / 1475807651
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-0765-3 / 9781475807653