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Special Education Is Broken
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Rader, Lacie – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2010
The author describes her experience as special education teacher at Berkeley High School (BHS), an urban school with over three thousand students, and how she began to question the way the school defines disability. The diversity of any large urban school has its benefits, but the size itself will always be the downfall when the school focuses on…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Urban Schools, High Schools