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This 6 page paper serves to support the position that the revisions to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 are good for teachers and students. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in support of this statement, argues that these changes are good for both students and teachers. Discussion The public education system in the United States has always been one of
the things that differentiates this nation from others, and one of our proudest achievements. But that system has not always served everyone well, or equally. To correct some of these
injustices, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was first passed in 1975; in 2004, revisions were made to it to make it even more effective. The thinking behind IDEA
is relatively simple: it "guarantees students with disabilities a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment" (IDEA revised, 2007). It also authorizes the appropriations of "billions of dollars
in funding to states and school districts to assist them in providing special education and related services" (IDEA revised, 2007). The revisions to IDEA are contained in Public Law 108-446,
and "build on and more closely align IDEA with the No Child Left Behind Act: (IDEA revised, 2007). In addition, the revisions "modify important requirements around individualized student planning, transition,
litigation, and due process protections, monitoring and enforcement, and federal funding" (IDEA revised, 2007). In order to adequately support the position that these revisions are necessary and helpful, we will
examine them in more detail. First, the revisions bring IDEA more closely in line with the No Child Left Behind Act (IDEA revised, 2007). The Act has stirred tremendous controversy,
but that is not the subject of this debate, so well have to pass over it, merely noting that No Child Left Behind mandated testing, and the revisions to IDEA
do the same. The new law "promotes the use of universal design principles in both the delivery of instruction and the use of technology"; in other words, it promotes standardization
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