Exceptional Children articles from September 2003

Exceptional Children archives from September 2003

Exceptional Children: familiar paths and new directions.
September 22, 2003... Almost 20 years ago, Exceptional Children shifted from a journal edited in-house at the offices of The Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) to a journal edited by a scholar in the field. Jim Ysseldyke at the University of Minnesota served as...

Secondary school curricula issues: impact on postsecondary students with disabilities.
September 22, 2003... ********** Will standards-based education negate the benefits of individualized education for children and youth with disabilities? The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA; Public Law 105-17) and the No...

Independent educational evaluations under IDEA '97: it's a testy matter.
September 22, 2003... ********** A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF A CONTROVERSIAL PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARD With the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Pub. L. No. 94-142) in 1975, Code 300.503, Congress granted parents the right to obtain an...

What we know and need to know about alternate assessment.
September 22, 2003... An important way states have been implementing school reform in recent years is through the use of large-scale state and district assessments for student and school accountability. These assessments are used to determine if students have met...

Schoolwide planning to improve paraeducator supports.
September 22, 2003... ********** Increasingly paraeducators (also known as paraprofessionals, teacher aides, instructional assistants) are being utilized as a key service delivery support to assist in educating students with a range of disabilities in general...

A longitudinal analysis of shifting policy landscapes in special and general education reform.
September 22, 2003... ********* Over a 10-year period, three separate, but related, state-level policy initiatives were implemented in Vermont in an effort to reform special and general education through improving student performance and increasing the capacity...

Self-determination for students with disabilities: views of parents and teachers.
September 22, 2003... ********** A critical marker of the success of special education services is the degree to which students with disabilities become a guiding force in their own lives (Agran, Blanchard, & Wehmeyer, 2000; Wehmeyer, 1992). Halpern (1994, p....