Essay - Education: Inclusion Chapter One- Statement of Thesis: the Purpose of...

Education: Inclusion

Chapter One-

Statement of Thesis:

***** purpose of this work is to explore ***** in Education and to examine the pros and cons ***** inclusion as well ***** the laws that have been passed which affected inclusion and finally to explore the types of methods used to teach.

Introduction:

***** passing of ***** No Child Left Behind Act brought many changes to the education system in the United States. One of those changes was Inclusion. Inclusion has been the focus of much controversy between ***** who are against ***** and those ***** advocate for it. The Definition assigned by the Wisconsin ***** Association Council (WEAC) to Inclusion as follows:

Inclusion is ***** word given ***** expresses commitment to educate each child, to the maximum extent appropriate, in the school and cl*****sroom he or she would otherwise attend."

***** inclusion means that each student, whether h*****icapped or not will be in the same regular classroom on a full time basis. (WEAC 1996)

His*****ry of Legislation in Relation to Special Education:

********** is no federal law that requires inclusion and as a matter of fact the w*****d inclusion is a word th*****t *****n't written into any of ***** education legislation prior to the No Child Left Behind Act. The laws that govern the education of disabled individuals are:

The Individual with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA

The Rehabilitation ***** of 1973, Section 504.

The legislation written within the ********** with Disabilities Act (IDEA) makes it a requirement that individuals with disabilities be provided an ***** to the "greatest extent possible" ***** to do so in the environment with the least limitations possible. The law with***** ***** ***** is foc***** toward the placement of all ***** ***** ***** in ***** regular ***** possible. ***** Individual Education Program was developed ***** assessing the placement that is appropriate for the ***** student.

Section ***** ***** the Rehabilitation Act of ***** has as a ***** ***** schools receiving Federal funding makes provisions for those handicapped students within ***** jurisdiction receiving funds to appropriate those ***** toward making the life of the disabled students as normal and ordinary as is possible. The Act of Public Law 94-142, ***** ***** for All Handicapped Children Act. Was ***** which allowed all students with handicaps to receive public education. During 1990 the ***** was re-authorized and renamed ***** Individuals with D*****abilities Act.

The school receiving funding is required by this Federal ***** to place those *****, who ***** handicapped in a classroom with the ***** *****, as regular students are educated. The only exception to this rule of law is, in the event the handicapped student is able to demonstrate that the use of special supplementary services and other aides still cannot be satisfactorily achieved. The statutes ***** govern the IDEA did not provide guidelines that determined the ***** to which the institution should go in this provision neither did it spell out the rights of other ***** in the cl*****sroom.

There have been however, certain guidelines set by