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Four Major Influences for Accountability
When it comes to accountability there has been four major influences that recur in developing policy makers, educators, and families as they have sought to improve America’s schools. The four influences are advances in technology by economic competitors, the low achievements scores of U.S. students when compared to those in other nations, the need for well-trained domestic workforce, capable of retaining U.S. economic technological, and military supremacy in the world, and the civil rights movements on behalf of students who are female, and who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or who have disabilities (p. 129). These developments have practical consequences for partnerships.
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Early intervention is for children that are experiencing a significant developmental delay or has a disability that results in developmental delays or has a physical or mental diagnosed that can affect the child with developmental delays (p. 132). Early childhood is when the child has received early intervention and the child’s parents and educators agree they need to countrie to receive early intervention services during ages 3 to 5. After early childhood is elementary through secondary education and this is when a child is ages 3 to 21 have the right to free appropriate education and are eligible to receive services under Part B of IDEA. These child must qualify in 1 of 12 disability categories or until they are 9 and have a developmental delay or if the need special education services (p. 133). Part B of IDEA has six principles that children 3 to 21 can benefit from, these are zero reject, nondiscriminatory evaluation, appropriate education, least restrictive environment, procedural due process, and parent participation. Zero reject is that all children and youth can enroll, even those without a disability. Nondiscriminatory evaluation is that determine whether an enrolled student has a disability and if so
Accountability is defined by department of defense as the obligation imposed by a law or lawful order or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping an accurate record of government property, documents or funds. The numerical end product of personnel accountability process reflects the combat power of a unit.
This law has some of the definitions revised, changes several key components, and recompiled IDEA into four parts. IDEA's four parts that it is organized into consists of Part A, General provisions; Part B, Assistance for the education of all children with disabilities; Part C, infants and toddlers with disabilities; and Part D, National activities to improve the education of children with disabilities. Students with disabilities may be placed into an alternative educational setting for up to 45 days if they bring a weapon to school, possess or use illegal drugs, or pose a serious threat of injury to other pupils or themselves. Students with disabilities will receive appropriate accommodations when necessary for in state and district wide testing programs. IEPs are now required to include exactly how the student with disabilities will be involved with the general education curriculum. There are also provisions that state that transition planning will begin at the age of 14 instead of 16, annual goals will be emphasized, any assistive technology needs of the learner need to be examined and considered, and regular educators will be a part of the IEP team. The category of developmental delay may now
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal mandate that regulates how educational agencies supply children with disabilities early intervention services, special education classes, and additional assistance that is equitable to a general education student who does not have a disability. The services under the IDEA law are offered to children from birth to age 21. Students who qualify for services under the IDEA Act
The purpose of this memo is to review and analyze the claims made by Diane Ravitch in her book, The Life and Death of the Great American School System, and to justly state if the authors claims are well-researched and based on facts or if her arguments and claims are biased and opinionated. More specifically, this memo will acknowledge the two central ideas of contemporary education reform today: choice and accountability. Advocates of school choice believe that it provides families with alternative options to choose their children’s education that works best for them while encouraging competition to better schools. However, opponents of school choice believe that it will erode the public school system until it is no more. Some argue that accountability is “the great cure” that will fix schools by testing and placing teachers accountable, this will encourage more effort and in turn promote student achievement. Others believe that too much accountability is the reason why our schools are failing. Ravitch seems to see choice and accountability as the main obstacles standing in the way of a thriving American school system. After much careful research, I have come to two conclusions. First, choice is not remedy to make education better; all that choice does is
In Diana Ravitch’s ‘(2010) article Why I Changed My Mind, she discussed how adapting accountability and choice into the American educational system has failed tremendously. In addition, Ravitch explained how federally ordained policies are continuously contributing to the system’s decline as well. She believes the legislators are so focused on testing and teacher evaluation that they are ignoring the root of educational challenges in the United States. With such strong emphasis on testing and test results, educators have changed their teaching strategies in an attempt to satisfy a broken structure. There is strong attention towards preparing students to pass standardized tests while simultaneously denying teachers the time to focus on content and instilling core academic concepts.
IDEA is divided into four parts, A-D. Part A covers and describes the layout of the IDEA Act. Part B covers assistance for children with disabilities ages 3-21. Part C covers assistance for children with disabilities from birth to age two. Part D includes activities to improve the education of children with disabilities. IDEA authorizes formula grants and discretionary grants to support the improvement and implementation of programs for special education.
Dr. Bartlett's presentation, the way he demonstrated the exponential math is honorably dazzling and charming about the private exponential improvement
Research shows that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 shifted the focus of IDEA to improve teaching and learning by emphasizing the individual educational plan as a primary tool for educational planning. This increased the role of parents in educational decision- making. Part B of this law provided resources and services for children ages 3 through 5 with developmental delays or those with an identified disability. Part C of IDEA authorizes financial assistance to support the needs of infants and toddlers with disabilities and the needs of their families. Agencies are to provide comprehensive early intervention services that focus on
1. In what ways did God make his presence known to you since our last meeting? What experiences of prayer, meditation and spiritual reading has God given you? What difficulties or frustrations did you encounter? What joys or delights?
The Importance of Accountability is so my chain of command knows where everyone is so if they need a soldier for something they will know where to find them. It is also necessary to have accountability to make sure everyone in my class, platoon, or unit is safe and to make sure they are where they are supposed to be.
The heightened focus on education equity and adequacy has garnered substantial attention from both policy makers and media outlets. As a result of the spotlight, school finance litigation has forced states to not only change the way they fund schools but to improve and update their states’ assessment and accountability systems. (Griffith, 2005).
My current strengths as a leader would have much to do with my ability to foster accountability, network, and to effectively communicate both verbally and written. Working in the healthcare industry change is constant so possessing these strengths makes a difference in the field. Fostering accountability is important when making sure that you are fair across the board and treating everyone with respect. With so many branches of healthcare networking and relationship building allows for many opportunities for future collaboration. Effective communication is the universal language which allows for those in leadership roles to be innovative when expressing visions and generating new ideas. When It comes to weakness struggling with lack of being
No matter what you do in life whether it is being a teacher, cop, secretary, forensic scientist, or in my case, Marine, you will always find one thing in common. Within all of these jobs you will find that accountability is very important. You will also find that within keeping accountability you will not succeed. Accountability is knowing the amount of items or people in which you are responsible for. Accountability is also knowing where the items and people are at all times. While knowing where everything and everyone is, you also need to keep record of everything. All the aspects of accountability are important because without it things would be in chaos. The way I am going to explain the importance of accountability will be through my
Our country’s Legislative system has set many laws in place to protect the educational rights of all students, which allows for students to have a greater opportunity for educational success with funding levels varying between the states. Hooper and Umansky’s book, Young Children with Special Needs, states that the majority of early childhood intervention programs began under the "umbrella of Maternal and Child Health (MCH),” which was put into place in 1935 in accordance with the Social Security Act. The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) are two programs stemming from this historical piece of legislation. The Americans with Disabilities Act was an anti-discrimination law that allowed for more students to have access to certain facilities and resources giving them a better chance to succeed in their education. IDEA made it mandatory for the state to provide special education service programs for children between the ages of three and five. The parents with children who are included in IDEA typically receive grants to help them fund their child's education. Another piece of legislation that is widely utilized in classrooms today is the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). This plan develops a plan of action for the family with children that receive special education services and allows the information to further assist the child beyond school grounds. In use today is the Affordable Care Act (2012) that allowed for programs to be funded that look to prevent and care for children
Creation of new knowledge and using it for organizational progress should be a central activity for any higher educational institution. The vision, mission, and objectives of the organization should be clear on organizational contribution towards research and development. Being the first element of the theory of Accountability, planning finds a very important role in transforming a higher education organization into an active research institution for optimized contribution from employees. By setting the objectives of the organization, an organization can encourage its employees to think innovatively. Based on planning organizational objectives the organization can recruit and train its members to be innovative with a passion for research and documentation. The organization can develop its planning strategy as the blue ocean to become a monopoly in its business. Among the various steps to be followed in planning include individually or jointly analyse the institutional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges, identify the problems in transforming the organization into a highly productive organization in