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Article: Beginning special education teachers' classroom reading instruction: practices that engage elementary students with learning disabilities.(Report)
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- Exceptional Children
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- September 22, 2008
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In the period since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2001) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004), the criteria defining a "high-quality teacher" have become the subject of much debate. Value-added research results indicate that certain teachers are more effective than others in securing student achievement gains (Sanders & Rivers, 1996), but what underlies the ability to be effective seems less understood. Classroom practice is one dimension of teacher quality that has been shown to make a difference (Kennedy, 1999; Stallings, 1974). In the 1970s, researchers began identifying classroom practices that result in ...