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Peer-Reviewed Research under the IDEA: Is the Special Education Literature Correct about the Case Law?
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Zirkel, Perry A. – Communique, 2022
The peer-reviewed special education literature has included notable attention to the peer-reviewed research (PRR) provision that the 2004 amendments added to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). However, as with the other IDEA issues, the legal accuracy of this translating treatment for special education professionals is subject…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
Legal Requirements for Progress Monitoring under the IDEA: What Do the Courts Say?
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Zirkel, Perry A. – Exceptionality, 2022
The special education literature has included a continuing line of articles and chapters that have translated for practitioners the legal meaning of the progress monitoring provisions in the successive versions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This article examines this line of publications in light of the language of the…
Descriptors: Legal Responsibility, Progress Monitoring, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
The Four Faces of a Free, Appropriate Public Education
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Zirkel, Perry A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
This article delineates the four successive dimensions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) central obligation of "free appropriation public education" that the courts have developed thus far: (a) procedural, (b) substantive, (c) incomplete implementation of the last Individualized Education Program (IEP), and (d)…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
You Be the Judge #23: SLD Eligibility and FAPE under the IDEA
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Zirkel, Perry A. – Communique, 2022
For this 23rd article in the series reviewing recent court decisions concerning appropriate school psychology practice from both professional and legal perspectives, the topic is the substantive standard for free appropriate public education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), with a focus on the classification of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
How Good Must a 504 Plan Be to Pass Legal Muster?
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Zirkel, Perry A. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2023
Although varying among and within the states, the percentage of students with 504 plans is steadily and significantly increasing as a national average. Although the professional literature addresses the legal standards for eligibility for 504 plans, it has not provided up-to-date information to practitioners as to the legal standard for the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Court Litigation, Program Development
The RTI Approach to Evaluating Learning Disabilities. Second Edition. The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series
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Kovaleski, Joseph F.; VanDerHeyden, Amanda M.; Runge, Timothy J.; Zirkel, Perry A.; Shapiro, Edward S. – Guilford Press, 2022
From leading authorities, this indispensable work is now in a revised and expanded second edition, presenting state-of-the-art tools and procedures for practitioners. The book shows how to use response to intervention (RTI) to evaluate K-12 students for specific learning disabilities (SLD). The second edition gives increased attention to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Response to Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities