EDUC 510 EXAM ONE Questions with Correct
Answers
Who are the students with special needs?
-Students with disabilities served in special education
-Students eligible for Section 504
-Students at risk for school failure/ problems
-Students classified with gifts/talents
Exclusion
School-aged children/youth without opportunities to reach their individual potentials
Inclusion
School-aged children/youth with opportunities to reach their individual potentials
Advocacy inspired
-Civil Rights Movement
-Deinstitutionalization
-Litigation/ Legislation
-Special education in public schools
Early 20th Century: Horace Mann
proposed common schools funded by tax dollars. This would bring children/youth from
different social, religious, and economic backgrounds together
Prior to the 1960s
, -compulsory attendance laws
-segregation
-nothing in school referred to as special education
Changes in the 1960s
-concerns regarding those in institutions
-discrimination suits filed
-President Kennedy forms the Panel on Mental Retardation
-Robert Kennedy advocates for change in mental institutions
Elementary and Secondary Act
-signed by President Johnson in 1965
-addresses the inequality of educational opportunity for students from populations considered
underprivileged
ESSA Amendment of 1966
First time to address the public school teaching of students with disabilities
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
-formed the basis of much disability legislation and litigation
-born out of the CRM
-inspired parents to advocate on behalf of their children
The education focus of the CRM
Racially based segregation of public schools violates the US constitution; separate but equal
is not acceptable
Hobson v Hansen (1967)
Answers
Who are the students with special needs?
-Students with disabilities served in special education
-Students eligible for Section 504
-Students at risk for school failure/ problems
-Students classified with gifts/talents
Exclusion
School-aged children/youth without opportunities to reach their individual potentials
Inclusion
School-aged children/youth with opportunities to reach their individual potentials
Advocacy inspired
-Civil Rights Movement
-Deinstitutionalization
-Litigation/ Legislation
-Special education in public schools
Early 20th Century: Horace Mann
proposed common schools funded by tax dollars. This would bring children/youth from
different social, religious, and economic backgrounds together
Prior to the 1960s
, -compulsory attendance laws
-segregation
-nothing in school referred to as special education
Changes in the 1960s
-concerns regarding those in institutions
-discrimination suits filed
-President Kennedy forms the Panel on Mental Retardation
-Robert Kennedy advocates for change in mental institutions
Elementary and Secondary Act
-signed by President Johnson in 1965
-addresses the inequality of educational opportunity for students from populations considered
underprivileged
ESSA Amendment of 1966
First time to address the public school teaching of students with disabilities
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
-formed the basis of much disability legislation and litigation
-born out of the CRM
-inspired parents to advocate on behalf of their children
The education focus of the CRM
Racially based segregation of public schools violates the US constitution; separate but equal
is not acceptable
Hobson v Hansen (1967)
