Posted: April 25th, 2025

week 1 Discussion

For this discussion, you will use one of two free online tools to create a customizable free timeline to share in your post. You may choose from: Canva or Preceden.

• Canva: Free online timeline makerLinks to an external site.

  Sign up for a free account to create a timeline here.
  Select “Create a timeline for free” and customize the timeline to your liking.
  For each dated entry, include a brief description of the law and why it is important to special education law.
  Once you complete your entries, be sure to add a title and then select “Share” and then “Download”, followed by choosing “JPG” or “PDF Standard”, which you can then add as an attachment into the body of the discussion post.

• Preceden: Create a history timeline for your class project — For free!Links to an external site.

  Sign up for a free account to create a timeline here.
  Select “Create your Timeline Now”.
  Create a title for your timeline and then begin to follow the bullets to enter the needed information for the timeline.
  For each dated entry, include a brief description of the law and why it is important to special education law.
  Once you complete your entries, select “Share”, followed by choosing “PDF” or “Image”. Select “Download” to save the timeline on your device which you can then add as an attachment into the body of the discussion post.

Consider the following key events to build your timeline and ensure to include brief description of the law and why it is important to special education law along with the corresponding date for each:

• 1954- Brown v. Board of Education
• 1964- Civil Rights Act (Title VI)
• 1972- Education Amendments (Title IX)
• 1973- Rehabilitation Act (Section 504)
• 1975- Public Law 94-142
• 1990- IDEA
• 1997- IDEA Reauthorization
• 2004- IDEA Improvement Act Part C
• 2015- Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015

In your initial post, complete the following tasks:

• Attach the file of your timeline to the post.
• Describe how your understanding of special education law changed and evolved after creating this timeline.
• Discuss, using your own firsthand experiences, what you believe is the most essential
  legislative change over the years and why.
• Summarize the importance of IDEA.
• Explain one piece of recently noted legislation or information from your home state as discovered on the IDEA by StateLinks to an external site.webpage.
• Summarize, in your own words, any one of the OSERSLinks to an external site. spotlight readings from the site to incorporate into your discussion.