Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Elizabeth A. Murray and Bridget Dalton for their help in writing this book and Brenda Matthis and Linda M. Butler for their careful management of the writing and production process. Further, we gratefully acknowledge the valuable contributions to researching, writing, and producing this book from Linda V. Beardsley, Ann Brennan, Bernice Cheung, Kristen Cohen, Michael Cooper, Chuck Hitchcock, Richard M. Jackson, Alan S. Leney, Grace J. Meo, James Moore, Ron McAdow, Leslie O'Callaghan, Lucinda M. O'Neill, Donna Palley, Nancy Schick, Sheara Brand Seigal, Sheela Sethuraman, Ada Sullivan, Roxanne Ruzic, and our developmental editor, Joyce McLeod.

We are tremendously grateful to the following individuals, foundations, and organizations who contributed funds that made realization of this book possible: Ruth M. Epstein, Katharine Graham, Elizabeth Lorentz, Elizabeth E. Meyer, Robert C. Seamans Jr., Doris and Simon Scheff, Campbell Steward, Arthur K. Watson Charitable Trust, George J. Gillespie Charitable Trust, Foundation Cariñoso, Island Fund of the New York Community Trust, LD ACCESS Foundation, Inc., Pinky Foundation, Sidney & Judith Kranes Charitable Trust, and the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC), a cooperative agreement between CAST and the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education (OSEP), Cooperative Agreement No. H324H990004. (The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, and no official endorsement by the Department should be inferred.)

The following people designed and authored the Teaching Every Student Web site:

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