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Special Education Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Instructional Contexts for Adolescents with Autism: Impact of Educational Setting
(SAGE Publications, 2012)The present study describes the instructional contexts and activities of adolescents with autism in inclusive and self-contained settings for mathematics and language arts instruction using a descriptive statistics design. ... -
The Family Employment Awareness Training (FEAT): A Mixed-method Follow-up
(IOS Press, 2014-01-13)BACKGROUND: Although competitive employment (i.e., employment in community settings among peers without disabilities for minimum wage or higher) is associated with numerous benefits for individuals with disabilities ... -
Exploring Personal and Environmental Characteristics that Predict Self-Determination
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-02)This study examined the degree to which multiple personal (age, gender, disability, and need for educational support) and school environment characteristics (hours in academic classes with general education peers, hours ... -
Where differences matter: A cross-cultural analysis of family voice in special education
(Sage Publishing, 2008-05-01)U.S. education policy acknowledges the troubling differential rates of special education identification and placement for students who are culturally and linguistically diverse by requiring states to review annually student ... -
Teacher education in practice: Reconciling contexts, practices, and theories
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-16)This paper reports findings from an 18-month qualitative study that followed the experiences of nine teacher residents, their site professors, site coordinators, clinical teachers and principals in three professional ... -
Witnessing Brown: Pursuit of an Equity Agenda in American Education
(Sage, 2005-09-01)The 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision provides a critical opportunity to reflect on Brown's importance, impact, and the lessons it provides on achieving racial desegregation and its relationship ... -
Learning in Inclusive Education Research: Re-Mediating Theory and Methods with a Transformative Agenda
(SAGE Publications, 2006-01-01)In theory, inclusive education is about all students and focuses on student presence, participation, acceptance, and achievement. In practice, inclusive education is multiplicity of discourses and practices. Historically, ... -
The Complexities of Systems Change in Creating Equity for Students With Disabilities in Urban Schools
(SAGE Publications, 2009-07-01)This article explores the complexities of urban school improvement and systems change through the lens of educational equity policy initiatives. The authors situate urban schools within a critical context where contested ... -
Inservice Training Day: It’s not an us and them thing
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Establishing a Center to Support Faculty Research
(Springer Verlag, 2005-12-01)This article describes the establishment in fall 2002 of a School of Education Research Center designed to support faculty in increasing productivity and quality in research. Details are provided about center goals, services, ... -
Until Somebody Hears Me: Parental Voice and Advocacy in Special Education Decision-Making
(Wiley, 2006-08-24)When a family finds out their child has a disability, they enter the world of special education which has its own terminology, rules, settings and personnel. In addition to grappling with the meaning of their child's special ... -
Understanding the Dialectics of the Local and the Global in Education for All: A Comparative Case Study
(University of North Texas, 2009-01-01)This article is part of a special issue edited by Marianne Bloch and Beth Blue Swadener. -
Systemic Change for RTI: Key Shifts for Practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-10-09)RTI has the potential to meet the challenges of increasing diversity in student populations and the need for increasingly complex systems of instructional design. Three fundamental shifts in understanding systems and systems ... -
Dialectical Practices in Education: Creating third spaces in the education of teachers
(Teacher Education and Special Education, 2011-08-01)In this commentary, the author provides a framework for examining the articles in this issue. The author does so by providing a focus for reading and linking our brief history to the present and the future. She provides a ... -
Procedural Due Process: The Two-edged Sword That the Untrained Should Not Unsheath
(Bioinfo Publications, 1979)The issue of procedural due process is examined in this article by first analyzing the associated legal requirements of P.L. 94-142 and then identifying the "triggers" which professionals and parents can use to initiate ... -
Capturing Implicit Policy from NCLB Test Type Assignments: Analysis of Characteristics and Performance of Students Taking Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Achievement Standards
(The Council for Exceptional Children, 2011)This study examined the learner characteristics and performance scores of students in the 2009 alternate assessment-modified achievement standard for one Midwestern state. Comparing performance differences by disability ... -
A Perspective on the Unserved Mildly Handicapped
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The Age of Placement of Academic Skills in Curriculum for the EMR
(Council for Exceptional Children, 1970)Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the importance and age placement of certain operationally defined skill objectives relative to instructional programs for the educable mentally retarded and to compare ... -
Use of punishment with exceptional children: A dilemma for educators.
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Facilitating the social development of autistic youth by means of a family-style lunch program
(The Council for Exceptional Children, 1984)