Exceptional Children articles from February 1994

Exceptional Children archives from February 1994

Inclusive schools movement and the radicalization of special education reform.
February 1, 1994... In 1989-90, 4,817,503 students with disabilities were served under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (U.S. Department of Education, 1992)--a 23% increase...

The language-minority student and special education: issues, trends, and paradoxes.
February 1, 1994... * The current wave of immigrants to the United States is the largest in history (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990). Mexican immigrants over the past 10 years constitute the largest population migration from a single country in U.S. history,...

Young adults who are hearing and deaf in a transition study: did they and their parents supply similar data?
February 1, 1994... Researchers have conducted many studies at the federal, state, and local levels to describe the school-to-community transition experiences of people with disabilities. Many investigators have also attempted to isolate variables that are...

Respondent agreement in follow-up studies of graduates of special and regular education programs.
February 1, 1994... Data generated from follow-up studies of special education graduates (Hasazi et al., 1985; Mithaug, Horiuchi, & Fanning, 1985; Wagner et al., 1991) have come to play a vital role in the development of policy for school programs and transition...

Accommodations for individual differences without classroom ability groups: an experiment in school restructuring.
February 1, 1994... Differentiated assignments, focused questions, and intermittent tutoring are some of the strategies that teachers use to accommodate individual students who differ vastly in reading ability. Grouping and supplementary instruction, however, are...

Parents of students with disabilities and Open Enrollment: characteristics and reasons for transfer.
February 1, 1994... As the United States nears the 21st century, educators and policy makers have expressed concern about the status of the country's educational system. Reforms have been offered at many levels of government and in the private sector. School...