Should Children Have A Special Need - 1676 Words

Should children in today’s world who have a special need or don’t have a special need be held back in school? Should they be the one’s who are responsible for not reaching academic proficiency due to having a disability or unable to reach grade level standards? The No Child Left Behind Act gives all children a fair, equal chance to reach the minimum proficiency on standard academic assessments that they are expected to take whether they have a disability or not. The current talk among professionals is that they believe that these assessments deal with the amount of student’s graduating high school and the choice of public schools. Not only are these assessments being given to students to test their knowledge, they are given to see the†¦show more content†¦This also applies to children with special needs or disabilities and requires special education (LD Online). The No Child Left Behind act is to raise academic achievement in all students, and to close the achievement gap between student’s who do poorly and those who do very well. According to Margret Spellings who the is the U.S. Secretary of Education, states have additional alternatives and flexibility in testing special education students who struggle to reach grade level standards (ASHA Leader 10.6). The new guidelines for No Child Left Behind called â€Å"Raising Achievement†, will allow states to use modified tests for students with disabilities along with academic disabilities. This will give the children who need more time and instruction to make progress towards their grade level achievement. This guideline is supposed to help the students who fall within the achievement gap or for the children who don’t qualify because of their disabilities (ASHA Leader 10.6). States struggle testing children who often fail the grade level assessments. The current regulations allow up to one percent of students who are being tested for the assessments, are allowed to take an alternate test. All these guidelines form a â€Å"common sense† approach, which simply implements the law. Not all children should be treated alike; they all learn differently and have different academic needs, this approach focuses on the