Special Education For A New Century

by KATZMAN, LAUREN I.; GANDHI, ALLISON GRUNER; HARBOUR, WENDY S.; LAROCK, J. D.

• ISBN13: 9780916690441
• ISBN10: 091669044X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Harvard Educational Review

Summary

"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. The first edition - featuring such authors as Thomas M. Skrtic, Alan Gartner, and Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky - was instrumental in catalyzing change in special education and in promoting growth within the field. 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Part One: Challenging Assumptions	7	(74)
Eliminating Ableism in Education	11	(28)
Thomas Hehir
The Deaf as a Linguistic Minority: Educational Considerations	39	(14)
Timothy Reagan
Citizenship for All in the Literate Community: An Ethnography of Young Children with Significant Disabilities in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings	53	(28)
Christopher Kliewer
Linda May Fitzgerald
Jodi Meyer-Mork
Patresa Hartman
Pat English-Sand
Donna Raschke
Part Two: Critical Conversations about Disability and Race in Special Education	81	(80)
Special Education's Changing Identity: Paradoxes and Dilemmas in Views of Culture and Space	85	(36)
Alfredo J. Artiles
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children	121	(20)
Lisa D. Delpit
Empowering Minority Students: A Framework for Intervention	141	(20)
Jim Cummins
Part Three: Inclusive Practice in a Standards-Based World	161	(132)
Beyond Special Education: Toward a Quality System for All Students	165	(32)
Alan Gartner
Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky
The Special Education Paradox: Equity as the Way to Excellence	197	(62)
Thomas M. Skrtic
Complexity, Accountability, and School Improvement	259	(34)
Jennifer A. O'Day
About the Contributors	293	(4)
About the Editors	297