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Morningstar, Mary E.; Bassett, Diane S.; Kochhar-Bryant, Carol; Cashman, Joanne; Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2012
Society has witnessed significant improvements in the lives of students receiving transition services over the past 30 years. The field of transition has developed an array of evidence-based interventions and promising practices; however, secondary school reform efforts have often overlooked these approaches for youth without disabilities. If we…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Transitional Programs, Alignment (Education), Educational Policy
Eskay, M.; Onu, V. C.; Ugwuanyi, L.; Obiyo, N. O.; Udaya, J. – Online Submission, 2012
Preparing teachers for special education in the United States is a reflection that is not merely another attempt to reinvent the wheel. Rather, it is an investigation to learn from the past, use applications today in order to secure concrete and measurable goals in the diversified future of special education in America. Several historical figures…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Special Education, Special Education Teachers
Center for Education Organizing (NJ1), 2012
Over the past two decades, community organizing has emerged as an effective force for school improvement. In the context of shrinking education funding, stubborn opportunity and achievement gaps between low-income and wealthy children and between children of color and White children, and polarizing debate on school reform, community organizing…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change, Community Organizations
Stymeist, Melissa L. – Online Submission, 2008
At least 10% of students in private Christian schools are considered students with special needs. Private Christian schools vary in the degree to which they educate these students and in the approaches that they take toward educating them. This study examines whether or not private Christian Schools are allowing students with special needs access…
Descriptors: Christianity, Special Needs Students, Teaching Methods, Private Schools