The call for collaboration in teacher education.

From: Focus on Exceptional Children | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Blanton, Linda; Winn, Judith | Copyright information 
 
  Neither general nor special education alone has either the capacity or 
  the vision to challenge and change the deep-rooted assumptions that 
  separate and track children and youths according to presumptions about 
  ability, achievement, and eventual social contribution. Meaningful 
  change will require nothing less than a joint effort to reinvent 
  schools to be more accommodating to all dimensions of human diversity. 
  (Ferguson, 1995, p. 285)

As the number of st...

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