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special education rarely sets up special lesson plans for the students thinking they can learn anyways.Teachers then have to take the time to go through and make those accommodations. This seemingly little accommodations can take a lot of effort but they allow students to have higher success rates. The rest of the article shows examples of accommodations that can be made for special needs students.

Lesson plans that are put into place for a student with special needs is followed to the goals that are put into place during a placement meeting or IEP(Individualized Education Plan). This allows for the student to reach the goals that are put into place and if they're not being met then another meeting is scheduled to find a solution or different goals.

The goal of most educators is to have students achieve major goals in school and proceed on to college and a career with the foundation that is provided in schools. The state has approved a list of standards of education, also called Common Core. Teachers use these standards in the classroom and test the students to discover if these standards are helping the students learn. The students will take a standardized test to evaluate on how well the students have learned from the Common Core. If the students cannot achieve these set goals, educators and teachers will have to revise the strategies to teacher their students the Common Core.

This website highlights Amnesty International's goals and campaigns for the next couple of years. Freedom and equal rights for all, while responding to the most glaring crises. Taking injustice personal seems to be the best way to think about humanity, in my opinion.

On the website U.S. News, Kingsley Browne, a professor at Wayne State University, he wrote the article "Putting Women in Combat Is a Disastrous Decision". He stated that the goal of the military is to be the most effective, not to make it gender-neutral.

On the surface, conservatism and Christian democratic thought are quite similar with regard to social welfare, but there is one key difference.  Following the Catholic teachings, Christian Democrats believe that the responsibility of taking care of the poor and needy lies with the community, not the government.  Both groups feel that lawfulness and stability are highly important, but they have very different approaches to achieve these goals.

This research article gives detailed point by point information about the problems with Zero Tolerance Policies. The research done shows the goal of the policies and the actual effect they have had.

Cecilia Attias calls out the inaction of the global leaders to prevent the horrific massacres occurring in hostile Islamic states. In the name of protecting innocent life, this genocidal persecution must be stopped before ISIS has accomplished it's publicized goal to kill all Christians.

Smoking was banned in public and workplaces. Increased health is supposed to be the goal here.

The goal of the ACLU is to guarantee that all are free to practice their faith-or no faith at all-without governmental interference. Through litigation, public education, and advocacy, the ACLU promotes religious freedom and works to ensure that government neither prefers religion over non-religion nor favors particular faiths over others.

All people have the right to practice their faith without government intervention. The government cannot prefer any religion over others.

After months of deliberation, Russia and the United States have put aside their differences to accomplish a common goal; saving Syria. With the combined military power of both nations, they hope to accomplish removal of the Islamic jihadists that reside there, recruiting remaining citizens for establishments such as Isis, and restore it to the refugees forced to flee.

End of September is approaching and Barack Obama is on track to accomplishing his goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States. Although this is a great accomplishment, many are concerned about the fast tracked immigration system, and the concerns of national security regarding the significant percent of Sunni Muslims within the refugees.

Is privacy real? Google records websites visited on computers to pop up ads, that's how they make their money. Privacy is seeming less like a right and more of a goal. With surveillance of the government are infringing more upon citizens privacy. Why should the government be able to view our emails when Hillary Clinton deletes all of hers and is backed by the FBI?

I completely agree. I feel that privacy is a mere illusion in our society. Just because their is no paper trail, does not mean that there is no digital fingerprint. The government has always been a double-standard in how they have the power to make the rules, and yet they break them. People like Hillary just have more connections and the means to get themselves out of trouble.

This was a very interesting article. It does give a lot of truths about how the goverment has gone behind our backs and gone through people's private information at times. It is not fair at all for the government to be doing something like this without reasonable suspicion and a court order.

In his January 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama called for a new federal minimum wage of $10.10 an hour. The year before, in the same speech, he proposed a $9 minimum wage. This article addresses the different reasons to increase and the issues with increasing the minimum wage. it discusses how it has changed over the years and states that the original minimum wage was 25 cents an hour back in 1938. There are quite a few interesting stats in this article.

I definitely that Obamas move to raise the minimum wage has caused more problems than it has done good. It's only created a sense of working less, doing less for more pay. People don't want to work hard, get an education, or persue a career goal in order to make money. It's seems more common that people just want what's easy and what gives them the most for their own selfish desires.

Lots of treatment options are available for the ones who are suffering from these disorders. One is psychotherapy by talking to a psychologist, about 50% of these patients are suffering from depression. Another kind of treatment is a cognitive behavioral therapy where you set goals and helps change unhealthy thought patterns. Nutritional counseling is also a treatment by eating healthier to maintain your body healthy. However, some patients need a medically supervised diet to get back to a healthy weight.

Eating disorders are very common in today's society, but there are patients who have faced eating disorders and overcome them. With the treatment of therapy, counseling, and a supervised diet, many people who suffer from eating disorders can learn how to defeat them and avoid the possibility of facing the disorder again.

The scary part of eating disorders is how deadly they can be. The more a person starves themselves, the more muscles are eaten up; including the heart. I think it would interesting to see how eating disorders manifest in different cultures or minority groups. I know that eating disorders for women can be different from that of men and the method of treating that is also interesting.

This article is about the freedom of religion. It talks about freedom of religion in the public square and in the public schools. Another issue it address is the history of religion in America.

The goal to work on freedom of religion and belief is to guarantee that all are free to follow and practice their faith, or no faith at all, without governmental influence or interference.

The goal for vaccinations is for all diseases to be eradicated. As the number of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children increase, the likeliness of diseases being eradicated will decrease.

As time goes by, diseases get worse and worse. The APHA do there best to try and prevent diseases from spreading. Give everyone access to healthy living life

This article talks about how social media's affects on a younger audience and how it can lead to body dissatisfaction issues. It talks about how it can correlate to depression.

I agree that social media has a lot of negative effects on society.

I Think social media today definitely has a connection with mental health issues as it give people these unrealistic goals that affects the younger audiences the most.

Student loan debt is something that greatly impacts the economy in many different ways. Student debt can cause many graduates to set aside their goals, such as owning a home in order to pay off their debts. Student debt is a larger problems and it is sometimes overlooked.

Since the change of the presidency, Biden has begun work on the relationship between the US, Israel, and Palestine. This comes after three years of apparent support for Israel only. The goal is to generate peace among the two nations.