Special Education Reform There have been many changes in special education through the years, and as with most things, some were positive and some were negative. Turning back the clock a century we find that public education was just starting to make its debut. Schools, although they had been around for a while, were usually only found in the larger towns and were primarily attended by the wealthy and elite students. Special education students were excluded from attending school, because they were said to disrupt the learning of non disabled students and some were even sent to asylums. 100 years later we have seen many major reforms and we will look at three positive and three negative significant changes that has lead us to the special education
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This law contained three significant changes that have taken place special education. It entitled disabled students to a free public education, a right to due process, and an Individual Education Plan (IEP) (Yell, M. L., Rogers, D., & Rogers, E. L. 1998). These three changes, even today, have become some of the most important changes in the history of special education.
Parent’s fought for years to have their disable children included in the public education system. It wasn’t until Brown vs. The Board of Education that a door was finally opened. Brown vs. Board of Education was based on equality education for students of color, but because of the wording, it allowed special education students to also receive the same rights. In fact this law would get specific recognition when judicial views would discuss the civil liberties of children with disabilities (LaNear, J., & Frattura, E. 2007).
The IEP was another key player in the change of special education. A team consisting of professionals that will service the child meet and create a plan that will layout the students goals, timelines and services based on testing and teacher input for the next year (Romberg, J. 2011). This established an accountability system that would document and insure that the students would receive services and would show growth from one year to the …show more content…
Three of the most significant negative changes in special education were No Child Left Behind (NCLB), high stakes testing and inclusion. These three changes, unlike the positive changes which gave the disabled students rights, are placing the same expectations of the non-disabled students on the special education students and in a sense taking away their special rights. Students that qualify for special education especially once they hit middle grades are usually struggling and not able to keep up with the mainstream students, but these three changes are persistent on forcing these students to keep up the same
This law contained three significant changes that have taken place special education. It entitled disabled students to a free public education, a right to due process, and an Individual Education Plan (IEP) (Yell, M. L., Rogers, D., & Rogers, E. L. 1998). These three changes, even today, have become some of the most important changes in the history of special education.
Parent’s fought for years to have their disable children included in the public education system. It wasn’t until Brown vs. The Board of Education that a door was finally opened. Brown vs. Board of Education was based on equality education for students of color, but because of the wording, it allowed special education students to also receive the same rights. In fact this law would get specific recognition when judicial views would discuss the civil liberties of children with disabilities (LaNear, J., & Frattura, E. 2007).
The IEP was another key player in the change of special education. A team consisting of professionals that will service the child meet and create a plan that will layout the students goals, timelines and services based on testing and teacher input for the next year (Romberg, J. 2011). This established an accountability system that would document and insure that the students would receive services and would show growth from one year to the …show more content…
Three of the most significant negative changes in special education were No Child Left Behind (NCLB), high stakes testing and inclusion. These three changes, unlike the positive changes which gave the disabled students rights, are placing the same expectations of the non-disabled students on the special education students and in a sense taking away their special rights. Students that qualify for special education especially once they hit middle grades are usually struggling and not able to keep up with the mainstream students, but these three changes are persistent on forcing these students to keep up the same