When students graduate from high school, the public expects that each student will possess the skills to be successful at either work or secondary education. We know however, that not all students meet this expectation. ... Furthermore, not all students test well, especially learning disabled and special needs students. ... "With almost 90% of disabled students unable to pass a state mandated exit exam, California special education students may drop rather than face constant failure," warns Wolinsky (qtd. in Hicks, par.1) Whether students who struggle to pass exams eventually graduate depend...

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Additionally, we noticed that some schools had a large percentage of disabled students. ... In examining the summary statistics, we noticed a natural break in the data at about 40%, and thus we only considered schools with a student body consisting of less than 40% disabled students. ... Both of these sources focused on a few main areas: parental education, socioeconomic status, the number of disabled students, and the English language skills of students. ... Interpretation This value represents the intercepts which corresponds to the API of a theoretical school which has no significan...

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Affirmative action was created to not only help Black-Americans, but to help "many groups beyond women and minorities including the disabled, veterans, economically disadvantaged and others."... With contracting,, "affirmative action helps firms owned by women and minorities, or firms that can show a disadvantage"(Lemann, 110) Affirmative action in education also reaches out to disabled students, women, minorities, economically disadvantaged students, veterans, etc. It helps them in many ways like: " early outreach programs, recruitment and retention programs, efforts in admissions ...

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Affirmative action programs throughout the United States have long been a controversial issue particularly concerning employment practices (public/private) and university student and/or staff recruitment. ... The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of national standardize tests, evaluates students on their proficiency in reading, writing and science. ... When students cannot read well, they usually cannot succeed in other subject areas. ... However, with affirmative action, it has been noted that their incentives to achieve success may be decreased because "preferential treat...

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Affirmative action programs throughout the United States have long been a controversial issue particularly concerning employment practices (public/private) and university student and/or staff recruitment. ... The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of national standardize tests, evaluates students on their proficiency in reading, writing and science. ... When students cannot read well, they usually cannot succeed in other subject areas. ... However, with affirmative action, it has been noted that their incentives to achieve success may be decreased because preferential treatm...

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The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ... Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... About eighty percent of all non-English speaking students in California are Mexican or of Hispanic descent. ......

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