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Since writing this post, I have learned the Isakson amendment has failed. Follow on Twitter for the latest updates on ESEA.
As debate over the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—currently known as No Child Left Behind—continues in Congress, the Council for Exceptional Children is objecting to one of the bill’s many amendments.
The one in particular they find alarming, proposed by Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia, would do away with limits on how many students with disabilities could take alternate tests, which are different than those their classmates take.
“The Isakson amendment would allow any number of students with disabilities to take either an alternate assessment or a modified assessment—meaning they would be excluded from the general assessment system,” .
“When a student with a disability takes a different assessment than a student without a disability, there is no way to compare their performance, no way to accurately measure achievement gaps, and no way to know how well they have grasped the grade-level content. Impor
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Amidst all the chaos of St. Thomas Aquinas-De La Salle week, a little bit of interesting news got buried. So we’ll bring it back here…
Last week, the Florida High School Association announced that it has finalized contracts with 12 venues to host state championship events.
Most notably? Football, which has been played at Orlando’s Citrus Bowl in recent seasons, will stay at the same venue through the 2013 season.
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John Easton September 22, 2011
The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation is giving $42 million to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, a unique initiative that will focus on how to improve doctor-patient interaction.
“This generous gift offers the opportunity to bring a new level of rigor to the study of the doctor-patient relationship and clinical judgment,” says Robert J. Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago. “The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence provides an important complement to the biological research and clinical strengths of this institution.”
The National Center for Special Education Research now has its second director. Deborah Speece, a 27-year special education professor at the College of Education at the University of Maryland, was named to the post this week.
“Scientists who claim special education as their field of study are among the finest scholars in the country and I am eager to work with them, the special education community, and our colleagues in sister disciplines who are interested in addressing the challenges faced by children and youth with disabilities, their families, and their teachers,” Ms. Speece said in a statement.
The National Center for Special Education Research, or NCSER, is under the umbrella of the Institute of Education Sciences. It was established in 2004, when the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was reauthorized. NCSER’s mission is to explore how to best design instruction to meet the needs of each child with a disability.
Aside from her work at the University of Maryland, Ms.
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