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Williamson, Pamela; Hoppey, David; McLeskey, James; Bergmann, Erica; Moore, Hanna – Journal of Special Education, 2020
The least restrictive environment (LRE) mandate suggests a preference for educating students with disabilities in general education settings provided their needs can be met there. This study examined national trends in the educational placements of students with disabilities ages 6 to 17 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1990…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Students with Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Inclusion
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Bacon, Jessica; Ferri, Beth A.; Rood, Carrie E. – Teachers College Record, 2016
The continuously evolving standards-based reform (SBR) movement is one of the most prominent features of today's educational policy landscape. As SBR has continued to drive educational policy, local schools and districts have adopted many approaches to comply with legal mandates. This paper critically examines one particular resultant phenomenon…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Academic Standards, Disabilities, Access to Education
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Schifter, Laura A. – Exceptional Children, 2016
This study examined when students with disabilities graduated high school and how graduation patterns differed for students based on selected demographic and educational factors. Utilizing statewide data on students with disabilities from Massachusetts from 2005 through 2012, the author conducted discrete-time survival analysis to estimate the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Graduation, High School Graduates, Demography
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2017
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into short PDF sheets, by topic, with graphics. The topics for this report students with disabilities who are ELs include: (1) Percentage of students with disabilities, ages 3 to 21, served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fisher, Kim W.; Shogren, Karrie A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2016
This study examined adolescents' social capital, through social network analyses (i.e., ego network analyses), in two high schools where students were placed into academic tracks adopted by the schools and shaped by disability status (i.e., general education, co-taught, segregated special education classrooms). The impact of academic tracks, as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Capital, Track System (Education), Social Networks
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Bele, Irene Velsvik; Kvalsund, Rune – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
This longitudinal study, spanning from 1995 through 2012, followed vulnerable youth from upper secondary school (T1) as they made the transition to their early twenties (T2), late twenties (T3) and mid-thirties (T4). We investigated their social network relationships in different phases of adult life, focusing mainly on factors that explain…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Secondary School Students, Young Adults, Adults
Surgener, Gena F. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This research study was conducted to examine the effects of the academic achievement of elementary level general education students in the inclusion classroom setting versus the general education students in the non-inclusion classroom in a large suburban school district in Tennessee as measured by third, fourth, and fifth grade mathematics and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Inclusion, Grade 3