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Article: Trends in special education: accountability, progress monitoring and data management pose challenges and opportunity.(Interview)
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- District Administration
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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How is the landscape of special education changing?
For 20 years, we've fought for access to the general education curriculum, getting kids included. And now with IDEA 2004 and particularly with NCLB, we've turned from access to accountability. Our kids count now. So we have a renewed emphasis on the general education curriculum and a new impetus to make sure that our students have more rigor in their program. That's a good thing, because the research shows that if you have higher expectations, the kids have higher outcomes.
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Accountability and progress for special education students--is this what RTI, Response to ...