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Direct linkMaxwell, Lesli A.; Shah, Nirvi – Education Week, 2012
Accurately identifying English-language learner (ELL) students who also need special education services has long been a problem for educators. Historically, English-learners were overrepresented in special education, but litigation and civil rights complaints have, in more recent years, led to an equally troubling problem with identifying too few…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation, Special Needs Students, Disability Identification
Education Week, 2011
Response to intervention began as a way to identify and teach struggling readers and special education students. It's fast becoming a way to change schooling for everyone. This special report examines the many forms the approach is now taking, its research base, its influence on the educational marketplace, and the federal regulations that both…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Response to Intervention, Change Strategies
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2008
As a demonstration site designated by Oregon as a prime example of "response to intervention" in action, the Tigard-Tualatin district has had to pare visiting groups down to no more than 25 people. During the last few visits, 50 people descended on the district just outside Portland at one time. As educators in Tigard-Tualatin and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Student Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
Educators in the Chula Vista Elementary School District determined what kind of instruction students needed through a "response to intervention" (RTI) process, which provides extra help to struggling students with an aim of reducing the number of referrals to special education. As RTI catches on throughout the country, the district is on…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Districts, Early Intervention, Formative Evaluation
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2008
Students with health and cognitive problems who are not eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (DEA) have protection under another federal law: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. However, according to a research conducted by a Pennsylvania middle school principal and a law professor, school…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disability Identification, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), School Surveys
