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Carl Fenichel founded the first private day-school for children with seriously emotionally disturbance in the U.S.
"We began to recognize that disturbed children gear their own loss of control and need protection from their own impulses..." Fenichel 1953 -
Intended to provide high quality education to minorities in response to the substandard education they were afforded in the public system -
President Johnson named the public school system as the front line of attack -
An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression -
Warned that alternative schools were increasingly geared toward disadvantaged and disruptive students who were sent there without choice -
Defenition of ED adopted by Education of All Handicapped Children Act, now IDEA. Affirmed the right to free, appropriate education for students with disabilities. -
The dropout rate for students with disabilities was as much as 20% higher than for students in the general population. -
Draw attention to the need for research to address the problem of high dropout rate for students with serious emotional disturbance prompted this release. -
"Being at academic risk was nearly associated with every health risk behavior. Health and education are closely intertwined and that school failure needs to be viewed as a health as well as and education crisis." -
Alternative schools and programs are not specifically designed to serve as punishment from typical education setting -
Educators are mandated to hold all students to the same high academic standards. These high standards are mandatory for high school graduation requirements as well as reading and math standards for all school age children. -
Educators are mandated to hold all students to the same high academic standards.
Appropriate instruction, necessary adaptations, and modifications of curriculum are rights guaranteed to all students and mandated for students with disabilities.