http://www.wrightslaw.com/caselaw.htm
This website has been very valuable to me as I have worked on my graduate studies. This site has all law cases that pertain to special education cases that have happened. It dates back in history, and you can learn about different cases and the holdings of the courts according to law. THis is a great website!! Very valuable!
http://www.geocities.com/athens/styx/7315/subjects/law.html
This website is called Statutes, Regulations & Case Law. This website has information pertaining to IDEA Regualtions and Practices, Sdection 504, and 'Letric Law. It explains case law and has many cases that have happened. It gives valuable resources about contacts on the web to find more information about case law and regualtions.
http://specialedlaw.blogs.com/
This website is a blog page for parents that have questions or need help with a special needs child. It has great resources and would be a valuable tool as a parent to use for a better understanding for their child. The school can be a confusing place for a parent, so this website would be good for them to communicate with other parents and have questions answered.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Schools Behaving Badly
http://specialedlaw.blogs.com/home/schools_behaving_badly/
This website is a blog site that has information about schools that have done things are may not be ethical or legal. It looks as if this is a great resource for parents that may questions pertaining to legailty issues for their child dealing with special education.
This website is a blog site that has information about schools that have done things are may not be ethical or legal. It looks as if this is a great resource for parents that may questions pertaining to legailty issues for their child dealing with special education.
Parent Advocacy
http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/advo.index.htm
This site had a grat amount of resources pertaining to parent advocacy. It supplies articles that have a imformation about getting started with obtianing a parent advocate, explains advocating with articles, and many more. It also has advocacy tips and strategies, legal decisions about parent adovcacy, and resources.
http://www.disabilityresources.org/DRMincl.html
This website gives legal rights and inclusion terminlogy. It also provides resources for parents that may ahve questions.
http://www.ncld.org/content/view/290/322/
This website has great information about parent advocacy briefs. This particular site breaks the information down into age groups. It also has a great amount of information about legal issues such as IDEA, NCLB, and has a legislative action center.
This site had a grat amount of resources pertaining to parent advocacy. It supplies articles that have a imformation about getting started with obtianing a parent advocate, explains advocating with articles, and many more. It also has advocacy tips and strategies, legal decisions about parent adovcacy, and resources.
http://www.disabilityresources.org/DRMincl.html
This website gives legal rights and inclusion terminlogy. It also provides resources for parents that may ahve questions.
http://www.ncld.org/content/view/290/322/
This website has great information about parent advocacy briefs. This particular site breaks the information down into age groups. It also has a great amount of information about legal issues such as IDEA, NCLB, and has a legislative action center.
No Child Left Behind
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
This website includes just about anything that you may want to know about No Child Left Behind. It has an A-Z index on NCLB! IT talks about the NCLB state status, and NCLB policies. It provides videos that should school's success with NCLB, and America's educational process.
http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/index.html
This website is part of the first website that I mentioned on this blog. However, this one in particular is about the Elementary and Secondary Act It talks about improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged and improving the basic programs operated by the local education agency and much more
http://www.edweek.org/rc/issues/no-child-left-behind/
This website gives good insight of No Child Left Behind. It provides research on annual testing, teacher qualifications, reading first, funding changes, report cards, and academic progress. It also supplies many resources that provides valuable information.
This website includes just about anything that you may want to know about No Child Left Behind. It has an A-Z index on NCLB! IT talks about the NCLB state status, and NCLB policies. It provides videos that should school's success with NCLB, and America's educational process.
http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/index.html
This website is part of the first website that I mentioned on this blog. However, this one in particular is about the Elementary and Secondary Act It talks about improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged and improving the basic programs operated by the local education agency and much more
http://www.edweek.org/rc/issues/no-child-left-behind/
This website gives good insight of No Child Left Behind. It provides research on annual testing, teacher qualifications, reading first, funding changes, report cards, and academic progress. It also supplies many resources that provides valuable information.
Inclusion/LRE requirements
http://www.weac.org/Issues_Advocacy/Resource_Pages_On_Issues_One/Special_Education/special_education_inclusion.aspx
This website has definitions of inclusions including, mainstreaming, inclusion, and full inclusion. It also what federal law requires of inclusion. It discusses IDEA and Section 504. It talks about court decisions providing guidelines governing placement under IDEA. It has recommendations and resources. Great website!
http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/
This website provides information about legal requirements, teacher competencies, teaching strategies, decison-making, preparing for inclusion, and other issues. It also provides a great amount of resources.
http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/PUBS/504701.htm
This website provides a vast amount of information on LRE. Here is a list of some of the topics that it covers.
Information on Basic Rights and Responsibilities
Information on Evaluations/Assessments
Information on Eligibility Criteria
Information on IEP Process
Information on Related Services
Information on Due Process Hearings/Compliance Complaints
Information on Least Restrictive Environment
Information on Discipline of Students with Disabilities
Information on Interagency Responsibility for Related Services (AB 3632/882)
Information on Vocational Education
Information on Preschool Education Services
Information on Early Intervention Services
Information on the Rights of Students with Serious Health Conditions to Appropriate Educational Services
This is a GREAT website!
This website has definitions of inclusions including, mainstreaming, inclusion, and full inclusion. It also what federal law requires of inclusion. It discusses IDEA and Section 504. It talks about court decisions providing guidelines governing placement under IDEA. It has recommendations and resources. Great website!
http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/
This website provides information about legal requirements, teacher competencies, teaching strategies, decison-making, preparing for inclusion, and other issues. It also provides a great amount of resources.
http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/PUBS/504701.htm
This website provides a vast amount of information on LRE. Here is a list of some of the topics that it covers.
Information on Basic Rights and Responsibilities
Information on Evaluations/Assessments
Information on Eligibility Criteria
Information on IEP Process
Information on Related Services
Information on Due Process Hearings/Compliance Complaints
Information on Least Restrictive Environment
Information on Discipline of Students with Disabilities
Information on Interagency Responsibility for Related Services (AB 3632/882)
Information on Vocational Education
Information on Preschool Education Services
Information on Early Intervention Services
Information on the Rights of Students with Serious Health Conditions to Appropriate Educational Services
This is a GREAT website!
IDEA 2004
I have used this website before in the posting of high-stakes testing! Like I said in that posting, I have used this website a ton in this Legal Issues in Special Education class and I LOVE it!!! This site has such good, straight forward facts about whatever you are looking for! This time it just happens to be IDEA 2004. And of course this site has it all. This page contains information on IDEA 2004 on the following topics: Laws & Regualtions, Commentary to the Regualtions, Guidance from Education Dept, What You Need to Know About IDEA 2004, IDEA 2004 Publications and Reports, and Wrightslaw: Special Education Second Edition. Information about IDEA topics such as child find, eligibilty, evaluations, reevaluations, high-stakes testing, IEPs, IEP meetings and teams, accomadations, alternative assessment, placement, transition, parental rights and much more can be found in this book and on this site! This is a wonderful site to get knowledgeable information from! Go and check out the web page and the book!!
http://www.wrightslaw.com/idea/
This second site that I found is really pretty cool. The actual website is called "IDEA Partners." The idea behind this group is to help parents and advocates improve educational results for children with disabilities. On this site there is a section titles FAPE: IDEA 2004 Summary. I printed this out to have with me because it has a very detailed description of all changes that were made with IDEA 2004! I highly recommend going and printing you a hard copy of this information! It is wonderful to have on hand. The summary talks about the IEP process, Due Process, and Discipline. With each of these sections, the summary goes into great detail and breaks it down into subsection! Go check this out! It is a great resource:
http://www.fape.org/idea/2004/summary.htm
This third website that I found is called the National Center for Learning Disabilties. This site has all the latest IDEA 2004 news. It explains what IDEA 2004 and how it is main federal program that authorizes state and local aid for special education and related services for children with disabilities, including students with learning disabilities. It has background information pertaining to IDEA 2004. Also it supplies research and policy and advocacy information. This site also breaks up the information in groups such as early learning (Pre-K), grades K-8th, and grades 9th-12th. There is a section titled resources in the web that supplies valuable sites that have an abundance if information about IDEA 2004. This is a great site! You can see at it:
http://www.ncld.org/content/view/274/321/
http://www.wrightslaw.com/idea/
This second site that I found is really pretty cool. The actual website is called "IDEA Partners." The idea behind this group is to help parents and advocates improve educational results for children with disabilities. On this site there is a section titles FAPE: IDEA 2004 Summary. I printed this out to have with me because it has a very detailed description of all changes that were made with IDEA 2004! I highly recommend going and printing you a hard copy of this information! It is wonderful to have on hand. The summary talks about the IEP process, Due Process, and Discipline. With each of these sections, the summary goes into great detail and breaks it down into subsection! Go check this out! It is a great resource:
http://www.fape.org/idea/2004/summary.htm
This third website that I found is called the National Center for Learning Disabilties. This site has all the latest IDEA 2004 news. It explains what IDEA 2004 and how it is main federal program that authorizes state and local aid for special education and related services for children with disabilities, including students with learning disabilities. It has background information pertaining to IDEA 2004. Also it supplies research and policy and advocacy information. This site also breaks up the information in groups such as early learning (Pre-K), grades K-8th, and grades 9th-12th. There is a section titled resources in the web that supplies valuable sites that have an abundance if information about IDEA 2004. This is a great site! You can see at it:
http://www.ncld.org/content/view/274/321/
High Stakes Testing
The first website that I found that I though that was interesting was a site about things that are against State Achievement Tests. This site is called "Fair Test". It is the National Center for fair and open testing. The site has a great amount of information about testing, from K-12 Tesing to University testing. There is also a fact sheet and a resource link that can give more valuable information about high stakes testing. This website talks about the harmful effects of tesing on curriculum and instruction. It also talks about high-stakes testing exacerbates inequilities between wealthly and poor communities, and whites and students of color. This site also has a section about dropouts, retention, and high-stakes tests and how they are related. The harmful impact on bilingual students and English Language Learners that high-stakes testing has is also a section that you may refer to on this web page. The section that I found most interesting was a section titled "Testing Special Needs Students: Inclusion into flawed assessment policies and exams does more harm than good." There is much more important information that should be taken into account about testing. Here are some of the titles: Tesing Young Children, Scoring, Reporting and other errors made by testing companies in high-stakes situation, Anaylsis of the content and questions of various tests, Student voices on testing, Test pressure results in psychological harms for some children and many more!!! There is also a video about Standardized Testing Characteristics and NCLB assessing bilingual students!! You can find all this great information at the website: http://www.fairtest.org/arn/caseagainst.html
This website is called "Wrightslaw." I found this website to be very helpful while I have taken this Legal Issues class this semster! I have used the site a million times to get information about cases that I have read about. This site has a section titled: "High-Stakes Testing." It talks about the legal issues that come from state achievement testing. There is a great amount of information pertaining to children with disabilities that have to take high-stakes testing. There are articles and court cases that are a wonderful reference. This website also contains links to publications about high-stakes testing. This is a great resource to found about legal issues with state achievement testing.!!! Go check this out at: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/highstak.index.htm
This next link is an article that I found from the Washington Post. I found this articel inspiring because it talks about other possiblities that can be used in schools besides high-stakes testing. The author of this article, Jay Matthews is a education columnist for the Washington Post. In this article, he refers to the book "Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Tesing Corrupts American Schools." Mr. Matthews addresses four other suggestion that the authors of the book have given. (1) Formative Assessments: Assessment for learning, not an assessment of learning (2) An inspectorate (3) End-of-course examinations (4) Performance test, including project and portfolio defenses, begor judges. This was very interesting!!!! I also found the website for the book!!
Website for article from Washinton Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033100704.html
Website for the book: http://books.google.com/books?id=f7-eAAAAMAAJ&q=high+stakes+testing&dq=high+stakes+testing&pgis=1
This website is called "Wrightslaw." I found this website to be very helpful while I have taken this Legal Issues class this semster! I have used the site a million times to get information about cases that I have read about. This site has a section titled: "High-Stakes Testing." It talks about the legal issues that come from state achievement testing. There is a great amount of information pertaining to children with disabilities that have to take high-stakes testing. There are articles and court cases that are a wonderful reference. This website also contains links to publications about high-stakes testing. This is a great resource to found about legal issues with state achievement testing.!!! Go check this out at: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/highstak.index.htm
This next link is an article that I found from the Washington Post. I found this articel inspiring because it talks about other possiblities that can be used in schools besides high-stakes testing. The author of this article, Jay Matthews is a education columnist for the Washington Post. In this article, he refers to the book "Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Tesing Corrupts American Schools." Mr. Matthews addresses four other suggestion that the authors of the book have given. (1) Formative Assessments: Assessment for learning, not an assessment of learning (2) An inspectorate (3) End-of-course examinations (4) Performance test, including project and portfolio defenses, begor judges. This was very interesting!!!! I also found the website for the book!!
Website for article from Washinton Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033100704.html
Website for the book: http://books.google.com/books?id=f7-eAAAAMAAJ&q=high+stakes+testing&dq=high+stakes+testing&pgis=1
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