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Public Policy, School Reform, and Special Education

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Jim Ysseldyke, Bob Algozzine

An informative look at the factors that influence special education policies and practices!

This critical resource focuses on the current educational landscape, the delivery of cost-effective, quality services to exceptional students, and the ways in which society's values and beliefs affect the distribution of limited resources. Special features include:

Key vocabulary terms
Case studies illustrating how social, political and economic factors work together to affect special education practices
A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of school reform and restructuring
Helpful books, articles, and organizations for further research and support

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412938990
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 104
Publication date: March 24, 2006

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An informative look at the factors that influence special education policies and practices!

Education in the United States is driven by excellence and equity for all students. There is a tenuous balance, however, between society's desire to provide special education services and its ability to pay for them. Authors Jim Ysseldyke and Bob Algozzine examine the current educational landscape, focusing on the delivery of cost-effective, quality services to exceptional students. Public Policy, School Reform, and Special Education demonstrates how and why special education services are driven more by social, political, and economic factors than by actual changes in education, and the ways in which society's values and beliefs affect the distribution of limited resources.

Special features include:

Key vocabulary terms
Case studies illustrating how social, political and economic factors work together to affect special education practices
A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of school reform and restructuring
Helpful books, articles, and organizations for further research and support

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection
This collection equips educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring-and meeting-their fullest potential.

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Key features

Practical, accessible, research-based information and advice distilled from a highly-successful textbook
Numerous case studies
Reflection/professional development exercises
Resources – books, articles, organizations
Linked to IDEA 2004

Author(s)

Jim Ysseldyke

Jim Ysseldyke, Ph.D., is Birkmaier Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, director of the School Psychology Program, and director of the Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Widely requested as a staff developer and conference speaker, Ysseldyke brings more than 30 years of research and teaching experience to educational professionals around the globe.

As the former director of the federally funded National Center on Educational Outcomes, Ysseldyke conducted research and provided technical support that helped to boost the academic performance of students with disabilities and improve school assessment techniques nationally. Today, he continues to work to improve the education of students with disabilities.

The author of more than 300 publications on special education and school psychology, Ysseldyke is best known for his textbooks on assessment, effective instruction, issues in special education, and other cutting-edge areas of education and school psychology. With A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher, Ysseldyke seeks to equip educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring—and meeting—all their potentials.

Bob Algozzine

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

Table of Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Public Policy, School Reform, and Special Education

1.What Factors Drive Special Education?

Social Values

Political Factors

Economic Factors

2.What Should Every Teacher Know About School Reform?

National Education Goals

REI and Inclusion

Goals 2000

National Standards

Opportunity-to-Learn Standards

School Restructuring

Impact of Reform on Special Education

3.Public Policy and School Reform in Perspective

Impact of Laws on Special Education

Current Reforms

Importance of Teacher Training

The Future of Special Education

Closing Comments and Parting Thoughts

4. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Books

Journals & Articles

Organizationa

References

Index

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