Inclusion: What progress is being made across disability categories?

From: Teaching Exceptional Children | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

This article is the second of a series that examines data on inclusion from the Annual Reports to Congress by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education.

As the previous article in this series illustrated, since the late 1980s U.S. schools have made substantial progress toward including school-aged students with disabilities in general education classrooms, as well as toward serving fewer students with more substantial needs in separate school settings (McLeskey, Henry, & Hodges, September 1998). This article expands on these findings by examining data from ...

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