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Brown-Wyatt, Valencia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Under No Child Left Behind Act 2001, the Reading First initiative was a component geared toward strengthening literacy skills in schools that were in need of improvement. Despite the intervention attempts through this initiative, research shows that students continue to struggle in literacy, which widens the achievement gap in urban school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Literacy Education
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Sharma, Umesh; Moore, Dennis; Furlonger, Brett; King, Brian Smyth; Kaye, Linda; Constantinou, Olga – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
This qualitative study reports on the perceptions of a regular classroom teacher and an itinerant teacher about the challenges they faced in including a student with vision impairment in regular school in New South Wales, Australia. Some of the common strategies employed by both these teachers to address these challenges are discussed. (Contains 1…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Visual Impairments, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming