There were many children with disabilities participating in regular school programs whose disabilities prevented such children from having a successful educational experience because their disabilities went undetected, also because the lack of adequate services within the public school systems. ... It has given children who would never have had it, the right to sit in the same classroom, to learn the same skills, to dream the same dreams as their fellow Americans." ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I consider myself lucky to have been given the opportunity by my parents to follow my dream and be proud of who I will be. ... I have also been fortunate enough to be approved for a full four year scholarship to three medical schools within the United States. ...

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Studies that Benson addresses reinforce the ideas that Latino students aren't getting the same education as whites, with data showing that more Latino kids are placed with less effective teachers within the education system. ... " Other government policies to help minorities in school include the California Dream Act, which is to help undocumented students who were brought over as minors by their parents attend college and receive financial aid. ...

• Word Count: 1872
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• Has Bibliography
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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various subjects in their native tongues. Such subjects are Math, History and some Science classes. The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate