The topic of disabilities is a very broad and controversial subject. There were so many areas I could cover when looking at disabilities in general. This paper will cover learning disabilities and the various ways to teach children that have learning disabilities. I found lots of helpful information on many different aspects to dealing with children with disabilities and I have summarized five articles that I felt best dealt with this subject.
The First article was High Stakes Testing and Excepted Progress Standards for
Students With Learning Disabilities: A five-year study of one district. The idea of the paper is to cover the consequences of excluding students with disabilities from the widespread accountability and reform efforts underway in general education. It also looked at the consequences of including students with disabilities in these reform efforts. The reforms were an accountability program that included grade-level proficiency standards for students and cash incentives for school staff to increase student growth. They then followed children with learning disabilities and their reading scores over a five-year period to see if leaving them out of the accountability reforms affected their test scores. Th