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Border Crosser
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A teacher who helps who are unfamiliar with the school culture negociate the expectations and demands of school in ways they can accept.
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certification
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obtaining a license from a state department of education indicating completion of requirments for teaching in the public school system
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interstate new teacher assesment and support consortuim (INTASC)
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a consortium of state education agencies and national educational organizations dedicated to the reform of the preparation, licensing, and professional development of teachers.
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National council for the accreditation of teacher education (NCATE)
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A national accreditation organization designed to ensure that teacher education programs follow established and agreed-upon criteria for preparing future teachers adequately
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pedagogy
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science of teaching
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praxis series
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a series of test used by a large number of states to examine teachers knowledge of subject matter and preparedness
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professional development school
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a program in which theory and practice are integrated by having expirence K- 12 classroom teachers work closely with college and university professors to help train future teachers
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reciprocity
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agreement between states that allows a teacher educated in one state to teach in another state without having to complete student teaching or take additional courses in the new state. reprocity does not imply automatic exemption from any state liscensing test
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reflective practitioner
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a teacher who actively thinks about instruction and the expirence of the learners as a way of evaluating his or her own practices and improving teaching
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teacher education accreditation council (TEAC)
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an organization similar to NCATE that is deticated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators pre-k through grade 12
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teaching license
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evidewnce that a person has completed the teaching requirements of a state
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burnout
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as defined by gary Dworkin, "an extreme form of role specific alienation characterized by a sense that ones work is meaningless and that one is powerless to effect changes which would make the work more meaningful "
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career change teacher
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an adult who leaves another career to become a teacher
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developmental continium
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a pattern of proffessional development involoving three-cycle phases: novice, apprentice, and profesional
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education reform
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efforts often political in nature, to change the current education system in order to improve the quality of education
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effective teacher
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a teacher who reaches students and makes a diffrence in their lives
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extrinsic award
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an external tangible reward such as a salary or bounus that attracts people to or keeps them in teaching
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full practicum
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also called student teaching, these full immersion expirences place preservice teachers in a classroom five days a week for a full semester or even an entire school year. students teachers often take full control of the classroom after a period of time working alongside the supervisor teacher
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intrinsic reward
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internal intangible reason that keeps an individual in teaching
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lifelong reward
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an educator who learnd and grows along-side there by adapting to the ongoing changes in the field
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merit pay
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controversial practice of paying teachers bounuses for reaching pre-established goals
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praticum
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preservice oppurtunities to visit classrooms and observe,interview, and practice stratagaies students are learning in order to increase their level of confidence. visits may be once a week, once a month, or more frequently.
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professional development
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procc ess of advancing knowledge and enhancing professional practices through continuing education efforts such as district workshops and course works
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adequetly yearly progress (AYP)
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profieciency level mandated by no child left behind that indicates that children are learning at an acceptable level and pace
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equal treatment
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subjection of all students to the same process of treatment
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giftedness
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students who are advanced academically and who require additional work in order to remain intrested and motivated
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free and appropriate education pg 183 chp 6
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provision first identified under the ALL HADICAPPED CHILDREN ACT and later reauthorized under the individuals with diabilties education act (IDEA) requring services designed to meet, at no cost to students, the educational needs of students with diablitlties as adequatly as it meets the needs of nondisabled students within the jurisiction of a school disitrict
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High stakes testing
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a type of testing whose results can determine a students advancement or a schools accredidation. Penalties may include students not passing to next grade; students reciving a certificate of completion instead of a high school diploma; or a school being placed on probation, losing funds, or possibly losing students to other schools and being closed
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inclusion
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including special needs kids in general classes
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individualized education program (IEP)
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a specialized instructional plan that outlines the support the student needs to be successful in school. An IEP lists the students goals and objectives for the school year
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least restrictive enviorment
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an educational setting in which a child with diasbilties can recieve an appropriate education designed to meet his or her individual needs alongside nondisabled peers.
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limited english proficiency (LEP)
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in an academic setting, a student whose native language other than english or who comes from an enviorment where language other than english is dominant; this heritage affects the individuals abiltity to succssefully achieve in classrooms where language of instruction is english
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nieghborhood school
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a school controlled by local leaders whose student population is determined by geography or proximity to the school, rather than racial, economic or social quotas
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nieghborhood school
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a school controlled by local leaders whose student population is determined by geography or proximity to the school, rather than racial, economic or social quotas
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nieghborhood school
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a school controlled by local leaders whose student population is determined by geography or proximity to the school, rather than racial, economic or social quotas
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oppurtunity to learn
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a powerful predictor of student acvievement based on a schools access to resources that can improve educational oppurtunities
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resilency
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abiltiy to bounce from adversity and adapt successfully
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tracking
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guiding students course selection based on various career paths, such as college preperatory vocational/technical cirriculum
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two way immersion
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a dual-language program that offers instruction in english and a foreign language to a student population composed of native english speakers as well as english as a second language learners
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community school
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a school provides more than just education services; it also reaches out to help parents and their families with a number of other services such as health. employment, and legal assistance
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deficit model
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perspective that focuses on what students and their families lack rather than what they have
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educentric perspectives
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an expert view of education that excludes parents and community members as shapers of school policy and relies soley on information from education experts
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family household
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a social unit of two or more people related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together in a household
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full service school
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a school where parents can access a wide range of social and health services without leaving the school campus
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household
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a living arrangment in which people live together in one housing unit
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social capital
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social networks and interactions of people within a community that promote involoment, commitment, and trust
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Brown v. Board of education of topeka
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the 1954 supreme court decision that overturned plessy v. ferguson by arguing that students at all levels of the education system must have equal access to the oppurtunity to learn, and that racial diffrences cannot be used as a means of classiflying or discriminating against any group of individuals in the society
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common schools
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a school that provides mass universal public education at the elementry level - a "common schooling" - to all people. An Emodiment of jeffersons idea of a universal education system for citezens
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essentialism
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a philosphical model first introduced by william bagley that espouses that the purpose of education is to learn certain basic or "esential" knowledge provided by disipiles such as literature, math, science, abd history
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ethnicity
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a common national orgin, setof customs, and or language that historically connects a groups of people
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existentialism
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a model of schooling that matians that the student knows from within what is important for himor her to persue in terms of education
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foundations of education
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a broadly concieved field of educational study that derives it character and methods from a number of academic disiplines, combinations of disiplines, caombinations of disiplines, and area studies, including: history, philosophy, sociology, antropology, religion, political science, economics, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, comparative and international education, educational studies, and educational policy studies
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gender
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classification of an indivuals sex: may be used to describe the socially inscribed characteristics of women and men
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great school legend
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idea of education as the great equalizer in american culture
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mainstreaming
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practice of intergrating students with special needs (both physically and mentally challenged as well as gifted and talented)
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no child left behind Act
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2001 legislation that ensures that all children have a fair, equal, and signifigant, oppurtunity to obtain high quality education and attain a minum proficency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state and state academic assesments
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normal school
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a school designed for the sole purpose of training teachers
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private schools
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a secondary or elementry school run and supported by private individuals or a corporation rather than a goverment or public agency
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school culture
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the atomospheere in the school created by interactions among and between teachers, students, and other school pesonnel. the set of norms, values and beliefs, rituals, and cerimonies, symbols and stories that make up the "persona" of the school
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superintendent
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a school official whose primary job is to oversee all aspects of the entire school district, much as a CEO would for a buiness
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vouchers
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an alternate funding program that provides funds to parents, allowing them to purchase education for their children on the open market. vouchers can be used toward the cost of tuition at private schools and even schools that are church affiliated
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charter school
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a secretarinan public school financed through public funding that operates indepentdently from many of the regulations of more traditional public schools. under a character an independent school group contracts with a public school system to achieve those goals within a specified time
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classroom climate
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tone of the classroom and a teacehrs effect on students
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compensatory funding
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funding provided usually from the federal goverment as part of an effort to overcome past social injustuces or inequatity. for example schools with large number of minority students in poor inner city areas often recieve funding to compensate them for past social injustices
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conflict theory
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a socialogical model of schooling that argues that schols reproduce and maitian the exsiting class and social power structures in a society and that they reflect competition between various groups for power and status
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establishment clause
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a section of the constitution that gaurentees all citezens the right to follow their personal religious faith
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formal school culture
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public documents that list school policies, codes, formal communications, contracts, ciriculum guidelines and other information that outlines how the school functions
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functionalist model
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a socialogical model of schooling that recognizes schools as an essential element in the social system; it emphasizes the function of socializing students to be part of the social, economic and political institutions of a culture
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informal school culture
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subtle unspoken rules of conduct known only to school insiders and shared only with individuals of their choosing
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interpretivist model
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sociological model of schooling that argues that we must understand schools in the context of the c and cultures in communities in which they are located, constantly analyzing, revising, and reintepreting what we see based on our position or location in the culture
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mission statement
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realitvly short written document that states in clear and succint terms the fundamental values and beliefs of the school
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principal
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a school official who oversees all matters involving his or her specific school, while staying within the guiding principles of the entire district
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perennialism
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a philosophical model based on the belief in "perennial" wisdom or knowledge that has been accumulated over the ages and is found in great works of literature and art as well religious texts such as the koran and the bible
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plessy v. fegersun
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the 1896 supreme court decsion that established a rationale for seperate but equal treatment of the black and white races in the US
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pragmatism
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an educational approach based on teaching of john dewey who beleived that education should be grounded in the real world and the actual expirences of the child
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public law 94-142
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the 1975 law also known as the education for all handicapped children act that estblished that students with special needs must be educated in the "least restrictive" enviormental possible
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race
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poeple who belong to the same genetic stock. A socially constructed phenomenom that has often been used as a means to justify economic, social, political, psychological, religious, ideological, and legal systems of inequality
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social reconstruction
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a model of education, articulated in the work of george counts that purports that schools serve to create a more just social and political order by examining and testing ideas critically
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socioeconomic status
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an individuals or group position within a social structure based on a combination of variables including occupation and education, and economic success
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vocational rehabilitation act of 1973
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provides a rationale for the equitable treatment of people with special needs in all areas invlolving support from the federal goverment
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free and appropriate education chp 3 pg 90
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legeslation were that people between ages 3 and 21 must be provided must be provided with (vocab word) and that education should take place in the least restrictive enviorment
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