| Introduction | | | | Priorities for Improvements-2005). |
| Education, which has become vital for | | | | However, in the year 2004 the government |
| the survival for any civilization must | | | | is providing school districts with just |
| be dealt with care and dexterity as his | | | | 20 percent of its commitment rather than |
| education later molds the personality of | | | | 40 percent specified by the decree |
| a person who dwells among millions of | | | | generating a $10.6 shortfall for local |
| people and can influence their lives. | | | | school districts and states. These |
| The 21st century has highlighted the | | | | shortfalls generate a burden on local |
| need of the reforms so that a normal | | | | communities and deny opportunity for |
| human being can achieve good education. | | | | students with and without disabilities. |
| The government has realized the | | | | Another problem according to the federal |
| importance of education and taken | | | | elementary and secondary education act |
| measures for its outbreak. | | | | (ESEA) is how to asses and support |
| Education issues | | | | students with disabilities. |
| One of the many increasing issues faced | | | | Solutions to the problem |
| the management the days is that the | | | | The solution to this problem is that |
| cheating has reaches epidemic | | | | that schools need to have zero tolerance |
| proportions. The Questions frequently | | | | policies regarding cheating. In addition |
| asked by the teachers is that why | | | | to that, the assignments should be made |
| students cheat. The reason that the | | | | meaningful and interesting for the |
| students unanimously put forward are | | | | students and the parents must take |
| that "they cheat in order come over the | | | | interest in their children's work. Also, |
| unrealistic demands for the academic | | | | the students must learn to be true to |
| achievement by the state education | | | | themselves and their own values and not |
| boards" (Darling -1998) and also that | | | | swayed by outside influences and |
| they consider it the easy way out. | | | | pressures. The national education |
| Another problem faced by the masses is | | | | association (NEA) has placed special |
| the deteriorating quality of teachers as | | | | importance on hiring experienced |
| the districts continue to hire teachers | | | | teachers and placing a provision in |
| who are unqualified or outside their | | | | schools that require local districts and |
| field of expertise School violence such | | | | schools to document and certify the |
| as common shootings is another prevalent | | | | competency of teachers already at |
| problem commonly feared by teachers, | | | | school. Further, all these problems |
| parents and students. Access to a free, | | | | roots to the fact that a communication |
| quality education is the key to the | | | | gap exists between parents and children. |
| uniquely American promise of equivalent | | | | In order to solve the problem, the |
| opportunity for all. This promise was | | | | government has placed reforms in which |
| extended to students with disabilities | | | | the teachers give the updated academic |
| with the passage of the 1975 law known | | | | performance of the student. Further, the |
| as the individuals with disabilities act | | | | government should try to fund special |
| (IDEA). Public schools all across USA | | | | education as much as possible and at the |
| serve more than 6 million students with | | | | same time should take measures that the |
| a wide display of disabling conditions. | | | | students should not only be assessed |
| However, the promise remains unfulfilled | | | | through standard tests but through other |
| as the government has made a commitment | | | | means as well |
| to pay 40 percent of the average per | | | | Bibliography |
| student cost for every special education | | | | Assessment, Other Challenges Face |
| student. "The present average per | | | | Special Education. (2005). Taken on 25th |
| student cost is $7552 and the present | | | | September from the internet site: |
| average cost per special education | | | | Funding Tops List of Priorities for |
| student is 16921."(Funding Tops List of | | | | Improvements. (2005). |