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Exploration of Quadratic Expressions through Multiple Representations for Students with Mathematics Difficulties
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Strickland, Tricia K.; Maccini, Paula – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The current study focuses on the effects of incorporating multiple visual representations on students' conceptual understanding of quadratic expressions embedded within area word problems and students' procedural fluency of transforming quadratic expressions in standard form to factored-form and vice versa. The intervention included the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Secondary School Mathematics, Learning Disabilities
Success Factors 40 Years Later: The Pioneer Postsecondary Program for Students with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Executive Function
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Fox, Laurie – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
In 1970, this first program supporting college students with language-based learning disabilities was a radical pioneer. While an exemplar for 40 years, there are fresh challenges today in the form of competition for diminished numbers of 18 year olds. To better understand what helps and what matters to students, research needs to go beyond most…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Executive Function, Longitudinal Studies
Many Students with Learning Disabilities Are Not Receiving Special Education
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Hallahan, Daniel P.; Cohen, Sandra B. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Students with learning disabilities are not receiving "special" education, which is based on the core principles of intensive, relentless, structured, appropriately paced instruction in small groups with frequent monitoring of each student's progress. We believe that the diminution of special education for students with learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational Practices, Special Education, Student Needs
NCLB and IDEA: Never the Twain Should Meet
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Johns, Beverly H. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
If we truly believe in the heart of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act-individualization for children with disabilities, then we cannot align the goals of No Child Left Behind with it. This article addresses why school personnel today are struggling with the impossible task of trying to align IDEA and NCLB. It also addresses the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, School Personnel, Educational Legislation