Not exact matches
At a conference, Dr. Naomi Zigmond, a professor of
special education at the University of Pittsburgh, said she advocates assigning
special education students to
separate classes and providing them with «intensive, relentless instruction.»
EW: Some people believe strongly that
special education students» needs are met better in
separate classes.
As the
special education staff delved into the IEPs and got to know the students, they realized that some of the teens didn't need to spend so much time in
separate classes, called «instructionals.»
Beyond the problems with services and shoddy IEPs is a larger issue, more difficult to correct: Students with learning disabilities (two - thirds of all
special -
education students at Marshall) spend more time in
separate classes than is recommended by experts, and these
classes often have watered - down curricula and low expectations.
Filed Under: Common Core,
Special Education Tagged With: ability grouping, Autism,
class size, Common Core, detracking, gifted, learning disabilities, mainstreamed, self - contained classroom,
separate school, social and cultural needs, tracking
Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially
separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle
class peers.
Other inclusive practices are to have students with disabilities attend
classes just like every other student rather then being
separated into
special education classrooms.
«to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities... are educated with children who are not disabled, and that
special classes,
separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability is such that
education in regular
classes with the use of supplementary aids and services can not be attained satisfactorily.