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Jasmery Sudler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The state of Delaware has a Dual Language Immersion program serving students from different backgrounds and varying socioeconomic statuses with a wide range of diverse needs. The state has ever-increasing difficulty finding qualified teachers who also speak the target language of the program, in this case, Spanish. As a result, districts within…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Gagandeep Kaur – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aimed to determine prior teacher and educational diagnostician knowledge of Indicator 13 and how to use Indicator 13 to improve post-school outcomes for students with moderate to severe disabilities. This study examined students with moderate to severe disabilities' indicator 13 results at the Learning Independency for Everyday…
Descriptors: Special Education, Compliance (Legal), Individualized Transition Plans, Individualized Education Programs
Lynn W. Streets – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite national attention for academic success, data shows that students with disabilities in the Appoquinimink School District do not share in this success. The district boasts a large enrollment in AP courses and high scores in both the state standardized tests and AP exams. However, students with disabilities consistently perform well below…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, College Preparation, Advanced Courses
Julie Anne L. Jamerson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Special education students are entitled to receive accommodations stipulated in their individualized education program (IEP) based on the individuals with disabilities education act (IDEA) (14 Delaware Code, ยง310, 2016). Although IDEA regulation does not define accommodations, accommodations are embedded within the students' IEP to provide them an…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Individualized Education Programs, Special Education, Alignment (Education)
Conover, Virginia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine special education teachers' perceptions of the daily process of documentation of academic accommodations provided to special education students on their caseloads, Grades 6-10. The purposefully selected sample was comprised of 12 middle and high school special education teachers who teach in…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Needs, Focus Groups, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Shady, Sandra A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recently, federal legislation has been implemented requiring that public school students meet a specified performance level of academic proficiency by the 2013/2014 school year. This reform movement, known as "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB), was passed by Congress and incorporates many of President Bush's educational reform proposals…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Testing Programs, General Education, Action Research
Fina, Nicholas J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This paper explores the stakeholder values, desired student outcomes, organizational purposes, and operating model of the Community-based Education Alliance (CBEA), a transition program operated by a partnership between the Center for Disabilities Studies of the University of Delaware, and two school districts in New Castle County, Delaware. The…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Opinions, Community Education, Focus Groups