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IDEA Stands for:
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - 1997
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IDEA, which originated as Public Law 94-142, requires that students with disabilities:
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Have access to the same academic curriculum as students without disabilities-birth to age 21-Free, appropriate education
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Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was designed to provide additional money for districts with:
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High populations of students from low-income families
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The 10th Amendment to the Constitution makes who responsible for Education?
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The States
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What is the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)?
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An organization that reviews representative work of experienced teachers to determine whether their work merits their gaining board certification as accomplished teachers
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What did the partnership of the National Education Association (NEA) and American Association of School Librarians (AASL) develop?
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The framework for teaching and learning that stretches from preschool through graduate school
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True or False disability is a kind of diversity
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TRUE
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Burton Blatt
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What did Burton Blatt discover while researching for his doctoral studies?
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He found that no evidence existed for the superiority of segregated classes for students with mental retardation, and began to question the merit of the various settings in which mentally retarded people were segregated.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - 1990
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Federal legislation protecting the rights of children and adults with disabilities in society at large, rather than only in educational settings.-Guarantees civil rights and prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.-The ADA is meant to ensure reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities to enable them to participate in the everyday life of the society.
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Least restrictive environment (LRE)
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Students with disabilities are to be educated in the learning environment that poses the fewest restrictions on their lives as students and that provides the most opportunities for interaction with non-disabled peers.
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Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
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A legal document defining the educational program and related services for a specific student who has a disability.
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Early intervention
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Special education services for young children from birth to age 5
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Transition services
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Special education services to help adolescents and young adults with disabilities make the transition from the school setting to the real world of work or living away from home.
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What is the function of local school boards?
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Local school boards have day-to-day responsibility for education at the district level as well as budgetary authority over the schools. They have historically had a great deal of control in defining education locally.
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