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Lloyd, John Wills; Lloyd, Patricia A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
Since 1966 when we began our careers in special education, we and others in our cohort have seen substantial changes in our discipline. In our personal experience, we had the opportunity to work together in situations that led us to focus on practices and procedures that produced better outcomes for our students, and better outcomes for students…
Descriptors: Success, Special Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Educational Practices
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Bain, Christina – Art Education, 2009
The number of lawsuits pertaining to educationally related issues is on the rise in the US (Mounts, 1999). Garner (2000) reports that teachers consider legal issues the third most important area of teacher preparation. However, few universities offer undergraduate courses in educational law and few programs offer comprehensive training concerning…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Legal Responsibility, School Law, Art Teachers
Myers, John E. B.; Jensen, William R. – Southern Illinois University Law Journal, 1985
The article examines the concept of "appropriate" educational programming as mandated under P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. A description of the approaches to the question in effect before the Supreme Court's decision in the case of the Board of Education versus Rowley begins the article. The effect of the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Kley, Raymond C.; Glaser, Roberta E. – 1983
This presentation was meant to identify for principals some of the issues surrounding the education of the handicapped by the use of questions and answers that include citations of selected federal court cases. Issues discussed include history of the education of the handicapped, problems related to handicapped student identification and testing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities
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Vesely, Randall S.; Crampton, Faith E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2007
The challenges in improving and sustaining success of children from multicultural backgrounds with disabilities in urban school districts manifest themselves in the contextual dynamics of legal, accountability, demographic, and fiscal terrains. Within each of these areas, educational leaders must solve existing problems of underservicing,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality
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Goldberg, Steven S. – Planning and Changing, 1986
Research suggests that federal legislation to resolve educational issues may be unrealistic and unworkable in practice. Parents and school officials accustomed to controlling educational decision making do not appreciate policy imposition from a distant bureaucracy; responses to policy may produce unequal or unfair outcomes when implemented at the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Instructional Improvement