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Is Response To Intervention The Answer To The Eligibility Mess?, Rebekah Gleason Hope
Is Response To Intervention The Answer To The Eligibility Mess?, Rebekah Gleason Hope
Rebekah G Hope
ABSTRACT The 2004 Amendments ushered in new controversial provisions to the 30 year-old Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA). In an effort to cure several issues at once, one of these provisions allows districts to replace the much maligned discrepancy model with a process referred to as the Response to Intervention (RtI) model. RtI was intended to more accurately identify students as eligible under the category of learning disabilities under the IDEA, with a conscious focus on avoiding over-identification and mis-identification. Another priority was early intervention by identifying children before they reach third grade. These lofty goals were certainly worthwhile, …
Plotting Privacy As Intimacy, Heidi Reamer Anderson
Plotting Privacy As Intimacy, Heidi Reamer Anderson
Heidi R Anderson
In Plotting Privacy as Intimacy, I use a two-dimensional Venn diagram to plot and evaluate a subset of privacy law decisions. In each plotted case, the general question was whether a person’s action should be afforded legal protection as private. How the court answered that question can be explained by examining whether the specific facts of the case fall within or outside two circles of intimacy. One circle represents the intimacy of the space in which the action occurs. This spatial intimacy is based primarily on the proximity of the identified space to a secluded area of the home. Within …
First Amendment, Fourth Estate & Hot News: Misappropriation Is Not A Solution To The Journalism Crisis, Joseph A. Tomain
First Amendment, Fourth Estate & Hot News: Misappropriation Is Not A Solution To The Journalism Crisis, Joseph A. Tomain
Joseph A Tomain
Journalism is a public good. The Framers understood the importance of a free press in a self-governing society and embedded a structural right for freedom of the press in the First Amendment. There is a journalism crisis. Symptoms of the crisis include layoffs of journalists, diminishing content in newspapers and shuttering of newspapers. The rise of online technologies has exacerbated the crisis, mainly by siphoning advertising revenue away from traditional news organizations to free classified advertisement websites such as Craigslist, search engines and myriad other non-journalistic online endeavors. The internet, however, is not the main cause of the journalism crisis. …
Is Response To Intervention The Answer To The Eligibility Mess?, Rebekah G. Hope
Is Response To Intervention The Answer To The Eligibility Mess?, Rebekah G. Hope
Rebekah G Hope
The 2004 Amendments ushered in new controversial provisions to the 30 year-old Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA). In an effort to cure several issues at once, one of these provisions allows districts to replace the much maligned discrepancy model with a process referred to as the Response to Intervention (RtI) model. RtI was intended to more accurately identify students as eligible under the category of learning disabilities under the IDEA, with a conscious focus on avoiding over-identification and mis-identification. Another priority was early intervention. These lofty goals were certainly worthwhile, but were they realistic? And, has RtI, as it …