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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 Oct 2011

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 Sep 2011

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 Jul 2011

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 May 2011

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 Jan 2011

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 Jan 2011

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.