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L.A. Schools Go Hunting for the Gifted [1]

Submitted by Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs [2] on May 18, 2010

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As a second grader, Emariye Louden is extraordinary. He founded a botany club, and he’s taught his classmates how to pick ripe lemons. He has also been placed in a gifted class at 99^th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles.

As a second grader, Emariye Louden is extraordinary. He founded a botany club, and he’s taught his classmates how to pick ripe lemons.

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Getting Past ‘Retarded’ [5]

Submitted by Sean Price [6] on February 9, 2010

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Medical and social service groups have generally retired the phrase mental retardation. Today, they use terms like mental disability, cognitive disability or developmental delay. But retarded still has life in the English language as an insult. And therein hangs a tale.

Medical and social service groups have generally retired the phrase mental retardation.

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Into the Mainstream [9]

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Number 37: Spring 2010 [10]

It has been more than 30 years since the federal government first declared that children with different abilities shouldn’t be automatically separated from one another in school.

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The “Wild” Side of Kids with Disabilities [12]

Submitted by Tim Lockette [13] on October 20, 2009

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When I first met Graciela Tiscareno-Sato, I was literally living in the wild. In 1991, Grace and I were both students in the U.S. Air Force Survival School, and we spent a week in the forest on the Canadian border, eating ants and worms and trying to make fire with sticks. I was terrible at this stuff, but Lt. Tiscareno – as she was known then – became a “go-to” person for everyone in the unit. She wasn’t much better at starting fires than the rest of us, but her can-do spirit made her feel like someone you could lean on.

When I first met Graciela Tiscareno-Sato, I was literally living in the wild. In 1991, Grace and I were both students in the U.S.

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Inclusion on the Bookshelf [15]

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Number 36: Fall 2009 [16]

Dominic and Victor are two boys who do lots of fun things together.

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Speak Out for Understanding [18]

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Number 36: Fall 2009 [16]

"So few take the time to sofu,” says the young woman in the center of the screen. “Speak out for understanding. Open your mind.

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Close to Home [20]

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Number 36: Fall 2009 [16]

I have often heard that phrase, “the courage to teach,” and dismissed it, thinking it referred to nothing more than long hours, discipline problems and exhaustion.

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Peeling Back the Labels [22]

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Number 33: Spring 2008 [23]

I suspected it before he'd even completed the 1st grade, long before the doctor announced the diagnosis.

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Does This Child Have a Friend? [25]

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Number 32: Fall 2007 [26]

Laughing and snapping pictures, students make their way around tables in the noisy, crowded rooms at Margarita's Mexican Grill in Santa Clarita, Calif.

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