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Author Sacks, Arlene, author.

Title Special education : a reference book for policy and curriculum development / Arlene Sacks
Edition Third edition
Published Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 387 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Overview -- Chronology -- Special education curriculum -- Special education programs and the law -- Politics and the special education challenge -- Popular culture and advocacy -- Organizations, associations, and government agencies -- Selected print resources -- Nonprint resources -- Primary documents and quotations -- National statistics
Summary A reference work that presents a chronology focusing on special education, its development, and the important issues that both positively and negatively affect the field. Updated through current events, this edition provides an excellent introduction to special education in all of its practical aspects-how it developed, its curriculum, assessment issues, the law, and advocacy--Provided by publisher
"In this third edition, Sacks offers both specific information developed and implemented since the second edition (published in 2009) and provides an interdisciplinary lens offering a global perspective of the field moving the reader beyond information to actualization."--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 13, 2022)
Subject Special education -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Special education -- Government policy -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Special education -- Curricula -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Special education
Special education -- Curricula
Special education -- Government policy
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781682177495
1682177491