Education Policies in Chosen Texts

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A review of six published texts to show how the special needs of individuals are treated in the field of education. Each article looks at special needs from a different angle and shows how this topic is covered by the media in America today.

The subjects and their texts reviewed are:

Individuals with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders ("Supreme Court: Private schooling for "Confinement" Does not Qualify for District Funding." Special Education News);
Individuals with Hearing Impairments ("Online Literacy Project Targets Kids with Hearing Disabilities." Special Education News);
Understanding Depression/Suicide (Pierson, T. "Suicide: Questions Most Frequently Asked." Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, 1996);
Gifted Individuals (Berger, S. & Winebrenner, S. "Providing Curriculum Alternatives To Motivate Gifted Students.");
The Law and Disability ("Bush Calls Education 'Civil Rights Issue of our Time'" CNN.com)
Individuals with Learning Disabilities ( "Adult Learning Disabilities - Moving beyond Humiliation." CNN.com)

From the Paper:

"This article describes statements made by President George Bush about education including that education is "the great civil rights issue of our time." Bush describes his plan to make changes to education in America. The focus is especially on children with learning difficulties with Bush being quoted as saying "we must have high expectations for children who are more difficult to teach or who have fallen behind."
Bush describes a plan increasing funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a federal program that aids disadvantaged schoolchildren and also recognizes that schools cannot meet the high costs associated with providing education to children with disabilities."

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