Organization and Administration of Special Education in the Public Schools

1933 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 371
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
The Public

The Preassessment Process for English Learners With Potential Language Impairment

2022 ◽  
pp. 321-338
Author(s):  
Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
English Learners ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Immigrant Family ◽  
Education Evaluation ◽  
The Public ◽  
True Story ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist

This chapter presents the case of Tanveer, a first-grade boy from an Urdu-speaking immigrant family from Pakistan. He is in the public schools and has been struggling academically since kindergarten. This chapter discusses the preassessment process and interventions that took place before Tanveer underwent a full special education evaluation, including testing by a speech-language pathologist for the possible presence of an underlying language impairment. (Note: this author personally worked with this child, and this is a true story with some details changed for confidentiality.) This chapter shows how even before formal special education testing commenced, conducting an extensive preassessment process helped to greatly increase the accuracy of the formal evaluation, eventual diagnosis, and intervention provided for Tanveer.

Mental Testing and Tracking for the Social Adjustment of an Urban Underclass, 1920-1930

1986 ◽  
Vol 168 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Black Children ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Testing

This essay examines the mechanisms used by the public school for socially adjusting an underclass of Italian, Polish, and southern black children who immigrated to Buffalo, New York, in the 1920s. It describes in some detail the activities and goals associated with the institutionalization of mental testing and tracking programs in those public schools serving these young members of an underclass. This essay suggests that as a tool of social control, testing and tracking into special education classes may have discriminated against the unassimilated newcomers who teachers and administrators feared were destined for a life of crime. Finally, the essay illustrates the reactions of interest groups to the school's tracking program, in order to show that members of and advocates for this underclass did not all passively accept the school's treatment of these pupils.

Employment of the Mentally Retarded

1967 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conwell G. Strickland ◽  
Vernon M. Arrell
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cooperative Program ◽  
State Office ◽  
The Difference

A survey was made of the records in the state office of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to determine the extent to which educable retarded youth found employment on jobs for which they were trained in the Texas statewide Cooperative Program of Special Education in the public schools. Records for a 26 month period provided the data. A total of 1127 (787 male and 341 female) out of 1405 (977 male and 428 female), or 80.2 percent, secured employment on a job for which they were trained. The difference between male and female students was less than 1 percentage point.

Educating Partially Seeing Children In The Public Schools

1953 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
The State ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Exceptional Children ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assistant Director

This summary report of the Workshop on Organization and Administration of Facilities for Partially Seeing Children, May 1-2, 1952, at ICEC's Omaha convention, has been edited by its chairman, Dorothy Bryan, assistant director of education of exceptional children (blind and partially seeing) for the state of Illinois and its secretary, Mary Barthman, teacher of the partially seeing, Columbus, Ohio.

Job Training Placement for Retarded Youth

1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conwell G. Strickland
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Job Training ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cooperative Program ◽  
Types Of Jobs ◽  
Training Opportunities

A survey was made to determine the types of jobs to which educable retarded youth were assigned for on-the-job training. It was based on the first year operation of the Texas state-wide Cooperative Program of Special Education-Vocational Rehabilitation in the public schools. Data received from 60 percent of the participating school districts provided information concerning 436 pupils who were assigned to 99 different jobs. The jobs were distributed among ten categories and one miscellaneous group. Findings of this study suggest diverse job training opportunities for educable retarded youth.

scholarly journals Work of teachers co-organising the process of education of pupils with special educational needs in the opinions of public school teachers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Niemiec
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Issues

One of the key issues within the area of issues related to contemporary special education is inclusive education. The purpose of the presented article is to analyse the key entities participating in the teaching and upbringing of pupils in the public educational system – the roles, tasks, professional qualifications, predispositions and personality traits of teachers of pupils with special educational needs. The article also presents results of research carried out by the author among teachers at public schools in the Silesian Voivodeship.

Using Benefit-Cost Analysis in Special Education

1988 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell R. Lewis ◽  
Robert H. Bruininks ◽  
Martha Thurlow ◽  
Kevin McGrew
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Social Service Programs

With the increasing application of benefit-cost analysis to other social service programs, the public has come to expect that similar economic analysis can be applied to special education. This article reports on some of the issues and problems inherent in such an effort. Data from a large study dealing with the costs and follow-up benefits of special education in public schools are used to illustrate that with appropriately identified and valued costs and benefits, it is possible to employ a formal benefit-cost framework to assess the efficacy and efficiency of special education services. A number of hypothetical comparison groups involving students with mild retardation are offered as illustrations in the use of this evaluation technique.

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