How might issues relating to disproportionate representation of diverse students in special Ed. be resolved?
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diverse students tend to be poorer, and poor people dont take as good of their kids and they dont learn how valuable an education could be, so they arent actually "special" theyre just ignorant\n\nas far as how to solve it, i dont know, try to get the kids more active in school somehow and understand that education is important.\n\n(these are my personal opinions, not "fact" if you are doing this for a paper or something)
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The point of identifying students with disabilities is to provide "individualized instruction." As you may know this is operationalized in an IEP (Individualized Education Plan/Program). That means you aren't addressing the entire population of kids with disabilities. \n\nAs a result, the number of needs depends on the kid. I'm sure someone out there has come up with the idea there are "five basic needs" but it sounds pretty arbirary to me. I wouldn't trust the notion. The safest approach is to deal with each kid individually. It's probably best for the kid and avoids having to answer the question for all kids with disabilities.\n\nAlso, inclusion sometimes depends more on the skills of the "regular classroom" teacher than it does on the skills of the kid being mainstreamed.\n\nGood luck.
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in Omaha there is a movement to seperate the schools back along racial/ethnic lines under the theory that students will learn better amongst people more like them i guess. I dont really think this is a good idea because as history has shown us, seperate but equal really does not hold much water as a idea. It is ulitmately up to you if you feel the segregation is a healthy practice, however the action is very controversial constitutionally because it is in seemingly fairly obvious violation of the brown v board of education of topeka case.
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Many schools have already begun offering coursework that deals with global issues, as well as study abroad and foreign exchange programs centered on a particular field or major.  Additionally, most large universities have students from all over the world.  So, diversity is reasonably well covered.  What's missing is the global community aspect.  Cooperative projects between students at US and foreign schools would go far to help students see the value and difficulties of living in a "Global Community."
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Promote DEPTH of study. Don't make them drill skills they already know. Instead, have them learn a greater depth of knowledge toward each state standard, and focus on higher-order questions (Bloom's Taxonomy).\n\nHere's a couple sites with some wonderful information about curriculum compression and enrichment:\n\nhttp://www.kisser.net.au/pdeo/peac/page8.html\n\nhttp://www.nagc.org/
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...a difficult problem in this period\nof "no child left behind" when curriculums\nare dictated and the test results is all\nthat matters.  Challenging them to do \nbetter on the tests?  Challenging them to\nsucceed in life?  ...a big difference.\nStudents must be made to realize that the\nchoice to succeed is theirs to be made and\nwhat they are learning is relevant to their\nworld now and in years to come.  Your own\nenthusiasm and efforts to inspire will go a\nlong way.  Good luck; with society the way\nit is, you have a lot to overcome, but \ncontinue to do whatever you can to be part\nof the answer.
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And this fits the "special education" category how? Try asking this in a Social, Cultural, or Arts category.
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The only way a law can level the playing field for a class of people is if it does not exsist.  \n\nIt sucks that people have inherint biases but the fact is that we all have them.  I am white and married a white woman.  I prefer white women.  All of my black friends married black women.  They prefer black women.  We (the human race) are prejudicial by nature.  Unfortunately, no law wil ever fix this. \n\nTo answer your question......No, I do not beleive in affirmative action.  Instead, I beleive that minorities that are under-represented in certain occupations need to try harder to make themselves valuable in those positions.  In most cases that means they will have to learn to properly speak the english language.
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Yes, it is the only way that inclusive education can work. You must have the teacher involved because inclusion requires significant changes in how many teachers teach. Often teachers are not involved in determining the individualized education plan for kids in their classes.\n\nOne overlooked aspect of inclusion is that it is successful only when the teacher receives the necessary training, resources, and support. Too often "inclusive education" has meant dumping a kid with a disability into a regular education classroom with little support to teachers. Teachers have a tough job, and they need additional resources, help (teacher's assistants and special education teacher consultation). At one time the idea of inclusion was that regular ed teachers and special ed teachers would "team teach." This hasn't happened in most schools. \n\nParent involvement is critical as well. My experience is that in most cases the quality of special education (including inclusion) depends on how involved parents are because, while they do their best, school personnel don't necessarily go the extra mile for kids unless the parent is there, monitoring the outcomes, watching what happens in class, working collaboratively with the teacher to solve problems, and helping the school personnel to better understand their children's needs. \n\nLots of good information on parent advocacy at http://www.wrightslaw.com.\n\nLots of good information on inclusion at:\nhttp://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/resources/resources.html\n\nhttp://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/special_education/schultz_inclusion.html\n\nHope this helps.
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In the Philippines, all I can do is offer you this website as a place to start:\n\nhttp://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/july05/textonly.asp?id=318\n\nIn the United States, special education is struggling between trying to maximize what is best for each individual student, with funding concerns and a lack of understanding from people not working directly with special needs students.\n\nhttp://www.wrightslaw.com/\n\n\nElsewhere, I know Britain failed to use inclusion successfully because the teachers weren't trained correctly.\n\nhttp://www.bcodp.org.uk/\n\nOther than that, I don't know.
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Every child and adult in America falls under some kind of learning disabled label.  Apparently, EVERYONE has something wrong with them.  Its unrelated to your article, but I've got this sneaking suspicion that the problem doesn't lie within the student, but the teacher.  Remember when one classroom for all grades was the pinacle of education.  When people didn't fit in there was something wrong with THEM.  Ponder please.\n\nHappy trails.
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The biggest problem in the US as far as school is concerned is the language barrier.  If the schools I have experienced are any indication, there's not much being done about the language problem.  There seems to be this policy of "Learn English" or fall behind, because we teach in one language and one language only.  Its not good.
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Well, diversity can mean that you have specialists on a wide variety of opinions. So if a lot of people with varied backgrounds work together on a project, you'll have a lot more ideas on how to troubleshoot problems.
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Um, your question is?\n\nAnd this relates to Special Education how?
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As with any test subject, the children are going to so vastly different from eachother the results are going to be varied. Which is always a problem.\n\nI would also have to agree with finding patients is another big problem.
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I have a 16 yr.old son who has add and he is in behaverhol special ed. He causes commotions in his classes (as do other students) and I am sure the learning process is disturbed. I feel that alot of times the teachers in public school are not equipped to handle these children. I get calls from these teachers for the same things that the regular ed teachers called me for.I was under the assumption that is why they put him in special ed so that he can be with teachers that know how to handle these kids but it doesnt seem to be the case.They still deserve to have an education.
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The biggest problem is funding. School districts are requires by law to provide a Free and Appropriate Education for all children, but the money to make the staffing, training, and materials happen either isn't budgeted by the federal/state governments, and/or it gets channeled into other programs. While the districts get more money for children with special needs, it all goes into the general fund....\n\nSchools, and the professionals who are employees of the district, who are present at IEP meetings, are under pressure to do what they can for a student while "making it work" without spending extra money or setting anything up requiring extra staffing, materials, etc. \n\nIf you want to be the biggest help possible for children with disabilities, there is a shortage of parent advocates and lawyers in certain areas of the country. Parent advocacy is most important...not only being a confident and educated voice for the student and parent, seeking a collaborative effort in setting up a program that is workable and will trully be effective for the child, but also involved in parent education about the law, programs, research, etc. Also, you could run for office and push for both more funding, and closer auditing/accountability for how funds earmarked for special education is spent. More staff is needed to provide lower student-teacher ratios, better training is needed especially for regular ed teachers in alternative instructional methods, and a greater variety of curriculum needs to be available to be flexible and responsive to different student learning styles.