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Perspectives of Special Education Administrators and Teachers of Students with Significant Disabilities of the Post-High School Transition Process
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Harden, Lorie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although transition of students with disabilities has been part of federal mandates since the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1990 and IDEA amendments of 1997, many students with disabilities continue to leave high school without a functional postsecondary transition plan. The purpose of this qualitative…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, High Schools, Teachers
Response to Intervention: Increasing Fluency, Rate, and Accuracy for Students at Risk for Reading Failure
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Tucker, Christine N. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many schools in the United States use the IQ-achievement discrepancy method to identify children with learning disabilities (a significant split between their intelligence and their achievement skills). Unfortunately struggling students who are not identified by this method remain in the regular education setting with no additional supports and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, At Risk Students, Social Change, Grade 4
The South African Higher Education Transformation Debate: Culture, Identity and "African Ways of Knowing"
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Horsthemke, Kai – London Review of Education, 2009
Following the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994, there has been a strong drive towards democratising education at all levels, primary, secondary and tertiary. The present paper examines some of the key ideas in the debate around transformation in higher education in South Africa, namely the notions of an African essence, culture…
Descriptors: Higher Education, African Culture, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Reading, Writing, and Thinking about Disability Issues: Five Activities for the Classroom
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Kennedy, Tammie M.; Menten, Tracey – English Journal, 2010
In this article, the authors share five practical teaching activities for introducing disability into the secondary English curriculum that also address NCTE/IRA objectives for the English language arts. They have used these lessons to help students better analyze the language/rhetoric of disability, understand how disability is represented in…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills
The Role of Social Policy in Life-Cycle Transitions.
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Mallory, Bruce L. – Exceptional Children, 1996
This article examines the theory, research, and social policy relating to family and individual life-cycle transitions for people with disabilities in the United States. Examples from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act illustrate both promising and inadequate policy…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Disabilities
Inclusion and School Reform: Transforming America's Classrooms.
Lipsky, Dorothy Kerzner; Gartner, Alan – 1997
This book examines the history of education of students with disabilities and the impact of educational reform. Section 1, "The Separate Special Education System," examines the current system; the limited outcomes for students; racial, social, and gender inequities; costs of special education; parental advocacy; the disability rights…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advocacy, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Court Litigation