Whatever Happened to Inclusion?: The Place of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Education

Philip Smith (Curatore)

Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2009

Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that students with disabilities – including those with intellectual disabilities – have the right to a free and appropriate public education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these students are fully included in general education classrooms. Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students; universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students; and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to Inclusion? reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to students with significant disabilities in America. The book then describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.

• Curatore: Philip Smith
• Editore: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Collana: Disability Studies in Education
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 254 p.
• Dimensioni: 225 x 150 mm
• Peso: 390 gr.
• EAN: 9781433104343

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