Then, in the early twentieth century, many compulsory attendance laws were passed that enabled some of the children with disabilities to attend public schools. ... This law was amended in 1990 and was renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and then was amended again in 1997. ... Generally, though, general education peers paid no particular attention to students with disabilities. ... Even effective teachers were found to make few adaptations because of the belief that many adaptations were not feasible of because students themselves did not view many adaptations favorably. ...

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The reader then starts to see that the good intentions of this case brought up problems that were beyond the topic of education. ... Then seeing the efforts made by the white residents of the country to try and desegregate schools by not sending their children to predominantly black schools. ... We see that there is a correlation between the success rate of minorities with less net income and non-minorities with a higher net income; this correlation brings us back to the fact that the education of the minority race is one that is very important to this society and without this education and ...

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Long before any sort of schooling system was introduced into modern society, human beings (including children) were fully capable of learning on their own through natural processes, even if such learning is not always considered "academic." ... However, this learning style does raise an interesting question regarding the fact that there is no set curriculum organized by the unschooling method. ... If it appears that a child's interests lie in a subject unrelated to algebraic concepts, then there is no apparent reason to teach them algebra. ... People were learning to read because they wan...

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Leave No Child Behind has said no to emergency certification and legislation to establish Teach Institution has opened a unique opportunity to reweave teacher preparation. ... There is some concern that these alternative programs do not place sufficient emphasis on professional knowledge but sometimes rely almost exclusively on internships and subject matter knowledge (Hawley, 1990; Zumwalt, 1991). ... For example, some teachers are prepared for elementary school and then placed at the middle or secondary level or in special education due to a shortage circumstance. ...

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