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An Analysis Of Disability-Related Provisions In The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (Heoa): What Universities And Policy Makers Should Know, Alan Kurtz
Education
The purpose of this October 2011 policy brief is to provide state agencies, postsecondary institutions, and policy makers with an overview of changes in the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) affecting the access to education of postsecondary students with disabilities and the way teacher education programs at Institutions of Higher Learning (IHEs) prepare general and special educators to teach students with disabilities. Specifically, this analysis reviews disability-related terminology new to this revision of the HEOA, access to instructional materials for students with print disabilities, changes in access to financial aid for students with intellectual disabilities, model demonstration projects both …
History And Developments Of Maine’S Essential Programs And Services Program, David L. Silvernail
History And Developments Of Maine’S Essential Programs And Services Program, David L. Silvernail
Maine Education Policy Research Institute
No abstract provided.
The Persona Doll Project: Promoting Diversity Awareness Among Preservice Teachers Through Storytelling, Mary Ellin Logue, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Soojoung Kim
The Persona Doll Project: Promoting Diversity Awareness Among Preservice Teachers Through Storytelling, Mary Ellin Logue, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Soojoung Kim
Child Development and Family Relations Faculty Scholarship
The Persona Doll Project describes an experiential intervention with undergraduate preservice teachers designed to increase awareness about diversity and apply this awareness to curriculum planning and advocacy for children. Sixty-three undergraduate students in a social studies methods class were each assigned a persona doll for the semester whose background differed from their own. Each was charged with becoming the advocate for the child, represented by the doll, by telling informed stories that would help other students better understand a level of diversity beyond what they knew from their own lives. Students heightened awareness of their own assumptions through narrative, inquiry …
Legislative Districts Education Report 2010, Kate Cuddy, Craig A. Mason
Legislative Districts Education Report 2010, Kate Cuddy, Craig A. Mason
Maine Education Policy Research Institute
No abstract provided.
Visual Supports Checklist, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Bonnie Blagojevic, Erika Neal, Billie Taylor
Visual Supports Checklist, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Bonnie Blagojevic, Erika Neal, Billie Taylor
Early Childhood Resources
The Visual Supports Checklist is based on a review of current literature, practical knowledge, and reported experiences from early childhood educators on the topic of visual supports.
Condition Of K-12 Public Education In Maine 2011, Christine Donis-Keller, Courtney Bartlett, Sharon Gerrish, David L. Silvernail
Condition Of K-12 Public Education In Maine 2011, Christine Donis-Keller, Courtney Bartlett, Sharon Gerrish, David L. Silvernail
Maine Education Policy Research Institute
No abstract provided.