2005 ASP BP 05/03 The Challenges for India’s Education System Marie Lall‚ Chatham House Summary • This paper‚ the first in an occasional series on India’s education system‚ places the current issues facing education in India in a historical context. • Since Independence‚ successive Indian governments have had to address a number of key challenges with regard to education policy‚ which has always formed a crucial part of its development agenda. The key challenges are: • improving access
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say that special educational needs (SEN) came in use as a result of dissatisfaction: The term special educational needs began to come into use in the late 1960s as a result of increasing dissatisfaction with the terminology used in the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regulations (1945)‚ which classified handicapped children into ten categories according to their main handicap. (Gulliford and Upton‚ 1992) The definition of SEN in the Education Act 1996
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Though special education has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 50 years‚ we are still seeing the effects of disproportionality. Disproportionality describes the phenomenon of overrepresentation of certain races and ethnicities in the special education programs in schools. For instance‚ African American and Amerindian groups have a much larger representation in special education programs when compared to their actual population size in the school. This overrepresentation for special education
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Fraud in Special Education Published: August 7‚ 2012 Over the last several weeks‚ Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli of New York has issued audits detailing millions of dollars in fraud by private companies that provide special education services to preschool children with learning‚ developmental or other disabilities. With more than a dozen audits in the works‚ the bad news about the troubled program is clearly not over. And the scope of the wrongdoing could be broader still given that many of the
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Why is a special education teacher a good resource to help deal with student behavior problems? A special education teacher is a good resource to general education teachers when they are dealing with students exhibiting behavior problems because they specialize in working with individuals with disabilities. Some special education teachers will work with individuals with specific types of disabilities while others may work with a range of disability types. Since these teachers are more knowledgeable
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about what is meant by the term special educational needs; then I will talk about the history of my chosen topic which is autism; when it was diagnosed‚ who diagnosed it‚ how labelling can affect a child suffering from autism‚ and what treatments are available to assist autistic people in leading some-what normal lives. I will also write about the medical and social model‚ what they are and how they relate to SEN‚ I will then write about the SEN Code of Practice and special educational needs coordinators
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The topic of Special Education can be a difficult topic to talk about. As educators and parents we think about the topic of fairness every day and make assumptions. This paper will explain and answer four questions about the “F.A.T. City: A Look Back‚ A Look Ahead— A Conversation about Special Education” Video. The questions this paper will focus on are how Richard D. Lavoie defines and explains fairness in the classroom?‚ what advice he offers to parents regarding fairness?‚ what he says about assumptions
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Thursday‚ September 17‚ I went to Hillcrest Elementary/Visual Performing and Arts School to observe Mrs. Mary Jackson’s music class. When I got there the students were sitting in their chair and learning about the music notes AGF. I saw two Special Education Teachers in the class and they told me that they were here to help the exceptional students. These notes are short notes and high pitch notes. After the lecture‚ Mrs. Jackson had the student watch and learn the song “Fiddle Eye Fee” in which
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SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS PORTFOLIO Moving towards inclusive education INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED AND CHALLED STUDENTS IQ An Intelligence Quotient‚ usually referred to as IQ‚ is a numerical score arrived at through testing. A student can have a Low‚ Average or High IQ. Intelligence is an inherited trait which‚ if low may make learning difficult unless facilitated by a highly skilled teacher. Additionally‚ a pupil who has inherited a high intelligence can be badly affected by bad teaching methods and
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with others because all agencies can share information and concerns to create a holistic view about children and young people in their care when any need arises‚ to help to keep the children safe from harm and promote their welfare‚ to diagnose a special need quickly in children and get the help that is needed to the child/family as soon as possible without confusing the child or their families. And as a pre-school setting it is good to know that you are not on your own if any concerns should arise
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