The Landscape of Special Education Licensure, 2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Sindelar ◽  
Tiffany L. Fisher ◽  
Jonté A. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Disability Categories ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

With vetted data from state department of education websites, the authors undertook to update previous studies of special education licensure. They organized state licensure structures by the presence or absence of (a) grade bands and (b) differentiations (by category or severity). They assessed the impact of structure on student outcomes and special education teacher (SET) shortage, and sought commonalities in structures of effective states. They found that almost all states differentiate licensure for preschool teachers and teachers of students with visual or hearing impairments. Most states also offer a generic license. Currently, fewer states use other disability categories than was true in the past, and more states now use grade and severity distinctions. Structure was unrelated to student outcomes and SET shortage, and the authors found only two commonalities among effective states. As a unit of analysis, state may be too coarse, and the authors argue for within-state time series analysis as an alternative.

New Agendas for Special Education Policy: What the National Reports Haven't Said

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen Pugach ◽  
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Special Education Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The calls for educational reform that have dominated the professional and lay literature for the past few years have been decidedly silent in discussing the role of special education either as a contributor or a solution to the problems being raised. As an introduction to this “Special Focus” on the relationship between general educational reform and special education, this article summarizes some of the more prominent reports with regard to their treatment (and nontreatment) of special education. The impact of proposed reforms for the conceptualization and operation of special education is the subject of the five articles that follow.

Academic, Social, and Behavioral Adjustment for Students Declassified from Special Education

1996 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Carlson ◽  
Lucian Parshall
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Behavioral Adjustment ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Special Education Services ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Past

Each year 7% of Michigan's special education students return to full-time general education programs through declassification. In a preliminary investigation of declassification from special education, the authors analyzed data collected by the Michigan Department of Education over the past 5 years. Respondents suggested that, as a group, students declassified from special education are academically, socially, and behaviorally well adjusted; but teachers or counselors of 11% of the declassified students felt that these students continued to require special education services. Within 3 years, 4% of declassified students had returned to special education. Particularly noteworthy were the relatively poor results for declassified students with emotional impairments.

scholarly journals Perception of Local Communities Towards the Conservation Terubok

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Nur Athirah Bakeri ◽  
Dayang Affizzah Awang Marikan ◽  
Amin Mahir Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conservation Interventions

Terubok is one of the famous, important commercially fish in Malaysia and has high economic value which only can be found in Sarawak rivers. However, this species has been threatened in the past 15 years due to heavy exploitation. Hence, this study was done to examine the perceptions of local in conserving and sustaining the terubok population. An attitudinal study is increasingly being adopted as tools for evaluating public understanding, acceptance and the impact of conservation interventions. This study examines the perception and views of local community towards the dynamic resources, government intervention, unique features and livelihood sustainability which acts as a basis on conserving terubok. The findings of these studies show that almost all of the respondents show a highly positive attitude towards conserving terubok. Local community are really well aware with the importance of terubok. Hence, this study has proof that the local community has a positive attitude towards conserving terubok.

scholarly journals Pleistocene megafaunal interaction networks became more vulnerable after human arrival

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1814) ◽  
pp. 20151367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias M. Pires ◽  
Paul L. Koch ◽  
Richard A. Fariña ◽  
Marcus A. M. de Aguiar ◽  
Sérgio F. dos Reis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
As Species ◽  
Extinction Events ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Unstable Dynamics

The end of the Pleistocene was marked by the extinction of almost all large land mammals worldwide except in Africa. Although the debate on Pleistocene extinctions has focused on the roles of climate change and humans, the impact of perturbations depends on properties of ecological communities, such as species composition and the organization of ecological interactions. Here, we combined palaeoecological and ecological data, food-web models and community stability analysis to investigate if differences between Pleistocene and modern mammalian assemblages help us understand why the megafauna died out in the Americas while persisting in Africa. We show Pleistocene and modern assemblages share similar network topology, but differences in richness and body size distributions made Pleistocene communities significantly more vulnerable to the effects of human arrival. The structural changes promoted by humans in Pleistocene networks would have increased the likelihood of unstable dynamics, which may favour extinction cascades in communities facing extrinsic perturbations. Our findings suggest that the basic aspects of the organization of ecological communities may have played an important role in major extinction events in the past. Knowledge of community-level properties and their consequences to dynamics may be critical to understand past and future extinctions.

The Impact of Federal Personnel Preparation Grants on Special Education Teacher Candidate Recruitment for Rural and Remote Alternative Teaching Pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-209
Author(s):  
J. Matt Jameson ◽  
Ryan M. Walker ◽  
Michael Farrell ◽  
Joanna Ryan ◽  
Lyndsey Aiono Conradi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Teacher Shortage ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
The Impact

This article describes rural and remote teacher training in low incidence (LI) disabilities through an alternative teaching pathway (ATP) and the efforts of one university’s ATP program to address the ongoing critical special education teacher shortage in rural and remote school districts. The impact of the federal investment in recruiting/training teacher candidates in LI disabilities in rural and remote areas is described, and critical features of a distance education ATP programs in LI are discussed. Lessons learned over two decades of distance ATP delivery in LI are shared.

scholarly journals Developing Effective Advocates during Doctoral Preparation: An Examination of Federal-Level Special Education Policy Internships

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Rodriguez ◽  
Selma Powell ◽  
Carrie Straub ◽  
Krista Vince-Garland ◽  
Wilfred Wienke
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Southeast United States ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Special Education Policy ◽  
Doctoral Preparation ◽  
Internship Experience ◽  
Charitable Trust ◽  
The Impact

It is critically important for leadership personnel in special education to develop knowledge and skills in policy and advocacy. The Pew Charitable Trust initiated a survey to uncover resources and experiences impacting doctoral-level preparation at institutes of higher education. Results indicated that fewer than 30 percent of doctoral students were provided the opportunity for an internship experience. Thus, a large university located in the southeast United States created an internshipexperience reflective of current policies and trends within the field of special education. This article discusses interns’ responsibilities with reference to policy and politics, opportunities for mentorship, the development of personal contacts and networking, and the impact of each experience on the intern’s future role in special education teacher education and advocacy.

scholarly journals Does the Reflection of Foci of Commitment in Job Performance Weaken as Generations Get Younger? A Comparison between Gen X and Gen Y Employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9271
Author(s):  
Ahmet Alkan Çelik ◽  
Mert Kılıç ◽  
Erkut Altındağ ◽  
Volkan Öngel ◽  
Ayşe Günsel
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Gen Y ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gen X

Today’s organizations increasingly recognize the fact that employees and employee performance are essential intangible assets that should be effectively managed. Affective commitment (AC) is a widely recognized antecedent of sustainable job performance. However, achieving AC has become a great challenge in general and has been especially difficult since the beginning of the pandemic because almost all companies asked their employees to stay at home and work remotely in an isolated manner. Today, many different generations work side by side, contrary to the past, when generational mixing was very rare. Many differences exist among these employee generations, which determine their feelings towards authority and organization. Accordingly, this paper aims to clarify generational differences in the interrelationships among AC and sustainable job performance between Gen X and Gen Y employees. As remote working structure limits the interactions that employees have with their supervisor, fellow employees, and the organization, we decided to use the foci of commitment: affective commitment to the organization, affective commitment to the supervisor, and affective commitment to coworkers. Based on data from 416 post-graduates of Beykent University and using the PLS-SEM technique, we find that commitment to the supervisor and commitment to the organization are positively associated with job performance. Moreover, the findings reveal that the impact of the relationship between commitment to the supervisor and job performance is weaker for Gen Y than for Gen X.

scholarly journals A BUFFER ANALYSIS BASED ON CO-LOCATION ALGORITHM

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3 ◽  
pp. 2487-2490 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Zhou ◽  
S. Huang ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
R. Zhang ◽  
Q. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Complicated Problem ◽  
The Past ◽  
Buffer Analysis ◽  
Location Algorithm ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Buffer analysis is a common tool of spatial analysis, which deals with the problem of proximity in GIS. Buffer analysis researches the relationship between the center object and other objects around a certain distance. Buffer analysis can make the complicated problem be more scientifically and visually, and provide valuable information for users. Over the past decades, people have done a lot of researches on buffer analysis. Along with the constantly improvement of spatial analysis accuracy needed by people, people hope that the results of spatial analysis can be more exactly express the actual situation. Due to the influence of some certain factors, the impact scope and contact range of a geographic elements on the surrounding objects are uncertain. As all we know, each object has its own characteristics and changing rules in the nature. They are both independent and relative to each other. However, almost all the generational algorithms of existing buffer analysis are based on fixed buffer distance, which do not consider the co-location relationship among instances. Consequently, it is a waste of resource to retrieve the useless information, and useful information is ignored.

scholarly journals Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toyin Falola
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Although the conference from which this Special Issue derives was convened by two prominent historians, this article is multi-disciplinary; both within and outside the boundaries of history. The purpose is to merge various ideas in different disciplines to argue that the study of Coastal Yorubaland as an important unit of analysis should, on the one hand, stand alone, and, on the other, be integrated into larger studies in all fields from Art to Zoology. For thousands of years, people have been living along the coast, experiencing interactions with the sea: they were shaped by the lagoon and sea, and they in turn shaped the coastline and waterways. The past of the coastal Yoruba people shapes their present, and this present will shape their future.In this article, I speak to the impact of the consciousness of history, the consciousness of the past, and the consciousness of self and identity on coastal Yorubaland.

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