Federal laws and regulations provide a framework for addressing the needs of special education students. In addition to these laws and regulations, how has literature shaped the education communities' practice of special education in schools? Support your response with a theoretical perspective.
When it comes to any matter of major compliance, there is seemingly two different realms to what happens in the field after new guidelines shape out. Indeed, there is simple compliance with the law. At the bare minimum, this is something that all teachers and administrators must follow. Anything less than that is a clear violation and thus must be remediated. However, anyone that knows about such situations knows that simple compliance with the law is not enough. There are also the ethical and evidence-based practice guidelines that are (or are not) put in force by those same teachers and administrators (Teach-Nology, 2017).
While the law serves as a baseline, the wealth of literature that exists out there serves as a way to define things like what else must/should be done, best practices that define how to do things and so forth. Of course, these items shape and bend over times as some practices become more popular and proven while other practices fade away as being the norm due to perceived deficiencies coming up or better ideas coming to the fore. Of course, this system is not perfect and even scholars and experts will tend to disagree on some level about what is best, what is not, what should emerge and what should fade. Even so, the peer-reviewed and public nature of these discussions and arguments often leads to the right conclusions being rendered. There just has to be an avoidance of academic bullying, groupthink and refusing to ask questions that need to be asked, and then answered. Keep things transparent, honest and doing the right amount of due diligence is critical when it comes to the art and craft of special education (Teach-Nology, 2017).
2. Do you believe, as some observers in the education field do, that the use of response to intervention (RTI) and an NCLB loophole has allowed some schools with low numbers of special education students to avoid reporting the academic progress of those students...
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Categorizations included 'steamer children', 'backward', 'defective', 'truant', and 'incorrigible'. At least two of these terms have persisted still today. In 1904, special procedures for identifying 'defectives' were presented at the World's Fair. In 1951, the categorization changed again, with a major section of special education called the 'slow learner' what today we refer to as 'learning disability'. Even here, this term has split into countless subcategories such as 'ADD', 'ADHD',
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