True or False Federal law funds and regulates the education of gifted and talented students in the public education sector. {Ans: False}Outside the ZPD {Ans: A student in your tenth-grade classroom is within the speech emergence stage of second language acquisition. The student understands spoken English quite well but struggles with reading and comprehending written English independently. Additionally, the student is beginning to write grammatically correct sentences and correct mistakes, but requires a lot of support. The student is given an assignment over winter break to read a part of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and write a report.}True or False A student's medical diagnosis determines whether the student qualifies for special education and related services in a public education setting. {Ans: False}Choose whether or not the characteristics provided are common characteristics of a student with a learning disability. {Ans: Difficulty discriminating between or among sounds in words, letters in writing, or numbers, Difficulty reading text fluently, stumbling on sounding out words, and replacing words in text with words that have similar meaning, Difficulty with organizing school materials, information, and directions, as well as challenges prioritizing and keeping track of tasks}Wide interests, keen sense of humor,