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ISBN: 1-916690-44-X
ISBN-13: 9780916690441
Book Format: paper, 300 Pages
Pub. Date:
2005
Special Education for a New Century
Edited by Lauren I. Katzman, Allison Gruner Gandhi, Wendy S. Harbour, and J.D. LaRock
An updated version of the best-selling Special Education at the Century's End, this new volume combines cutting-edge research and theory about students with disabilities with classic pieces that have influenced the special education field since the passage of the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975. This new edition rediscovers those seminal articles and--through a new wave of equally groundbreaking articles--brings the issue up to the present day.Special Education for a New Century pays particularly close attention to how inclusive education practices can best be promoted in the era of standards-based accountability. In addition, it looks at special education among English-language learners and in early childhood classrooms, and offers new strategies for addressing the overrepresentation of African American and Latino students in special education. The volume also includes trenchant contributions by Alfredo J. Artiles, Thomas Hehir, and Christopher Kliewer, et al. that challenge existing assumptions about disabilities, urging teachers and administrators to cast away tired notions that denigrate students with disabilities and stand in the way of equal education for all.
Just as Special Education at the Century's End profoundly influenced disability policy and practice when it was published over a decade ago, Special Education for a New Century sets the agenda for scholarship and policies concerning students with disabilities and inclusive education today. It offers rich resources for policymakers and practitioners alike as they face the challenge of guaranteeing inclusive education for all students in today's schools.
About the Editors:
Lauren I. Katzman, a consultant for the New York City Board of Education, served on the Board of the Harvard Educational Review, and also helped develop one of the first inclusive middle school programs in New York City. She earned her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where her research focused on the perspectives of students who have disabilities on their inclusion in high-stakes assessments.Allison Gruner Gandhi's doctoral research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has focused on the impact inclusion has on the achievement of nondisabled children, and on the ways inclusion is defined in research, policy, and practice. She has previously worked as a research analyst at the American Institutes for Research, where she conducted research and policy analysis for the U.S. Department of Education, and she served on the Board of the Harvard Educational Review.
Wendy S. Harbour is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education n the area of higher education administration and policy, where her research focuses on disability and the implementation of universal design in higher education settings, and has served on the Board of the Harvard Educational Review. She is coauthor of the sign language interpreter curriculum called "Charting the Way: A Handbook for Postsecondary Interpreters" and is editing an anthology of disabled college students' college experiences.
J.D. LaRock is a Presidential Fellow and doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has served as a spokesperson for the New York City public school system, covered K-12 and higher education as an on-air reporter for NY1, a television news channel, and served on the Board of the Harvard Educational Review.