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Rebecca Archer Anwar; Juliet E. Hart Barnett – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
"Augmentative and alternative communication" (AAC) refers to a wide variety of communication devices, systems, tools, and strategies that support or replace spoken language. Augmentative and alternative communication users represent a range of ages, abilities, and communication needs. Support for AAC often begins in the public school…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Speech Language Pathology
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Štech, Stanislav; Smetácková, Irena – European Journal of Education, 2023
In international education policy articulations by organisations such as the UNESCO, inclusive education is defined rather vaguely, usually in terms of human rights. Yet, national reception it is more or less taken for granted. Analyses of "policy lending" show that when national education traditions are not respected, the lack of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Policy, Teachers
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Snyder, Sara; Huber, Heartley – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Special educators are relying more heavily on computer assisted instruction (CAI) programs to teach academic content to students with intellectual disability (ID) than ever before. Research in this area is growing; however, no formal review of the literature has been conducted to examine the efficacy of using CAI to teach academic content to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Education
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Clift, Renée T.; Liaupsin, Carl – Studying Teacher Education, 2019
A review of current self-study research related to teacher education policy in the United States indicates that at local, university, and state levels teacher educators are affected emotionally and professionally by policy and, in most cases, feel that policy is something done "to" teacher educators as opposed to something to which they…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Teacher Education, Special Education Teachers
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Brenda Barrio; Carrie D. Allen – Theory Into Practice, 2024
Literature on racial disproportionality in special education has recently been situated within a polarized debate about the sources of racial inequities: specifically, the benefits and harms of special education. In this article, we consider this debate from a historical perspective by examining special education policies and their implementation.…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Racism, Equal Education, Special Education
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Susan Polirstok; Joseph A. Hogan – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2024
Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is an outgrowth of Response to Intervention (RtI). The various systems of support for students and school communities provided through these programs are integral to modern education and embedded in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) of 2004. While there are many benefits to…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Educational Legislation
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Hopson, Karen – Journal of Catholic Education, 2020
This is a response to Bonfiglio and Kroh's "Inclusion in Catholic Schools: From Inception to Implementation." Bonfiglio and Kroh identify three primary barriers to inclusion: (1) Lack of culture; (2) lack of resources; and (3) lack of knowledge and skills. In Karen Hopson's experience, lack of culture can be one of the most challenging…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Program Implementation
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Whitley, Jess; Hollweck, Trista – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article aims to explore the context of inclusive education policy in Canada, and to highlight the particular case of inclusive education policy reform in the province of Nova Scotia. As with most other provinces and territories, inclusive education policy in Nova Scotia has broadened to include a lens of equity, with a focus on not only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Farmer, Thomas W.; Hamm, Jill V.; Lee, David L.; Sterrett, Brittany I.; Rizzo, Karen; Hoffman, Abigail S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Although there have been several advances in the development of evidence-based practices (EBPs) to support students with disabilities, many rural schools struggle to use EBPs. Rural schools may experience challenges that constrain their potential to provide support for the implementation of EBPs. Further, there may be a mismatch between EBPs and…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Professionalism, Evidence Based Practice, Rural Schools
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Kolbe, Tammy – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2021
State aid for special education shapes local decisions about identifying students for special education, the programs and services to which students have access and in which students with disabilities are educated, and how local educators structure and administer their special education programs. The connection between state funding for special…
Descriptors: State Aid, Special Education, Educational Policy, Program Design
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Malaquias, Catia – Australian Journal of Education, 2022
The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2006 and, in particular, Article 24 was a landmark in the struggle of people with disability for recognition of their fundamental human rights, including their right to education. As a legally binding treaty under international law, imposing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Rights, International Law
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Hall-Mills, Shannon – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: This research note presents a secondary data analysis of language impairment (LI) prevalence rates of children in public schools before and after a statewide mandate for response-to-intervention (RTI) implementation. Method: Statewide and district-level LI prevalence rates were compared across 10 school years. Prevalence data from 67…
Descriptors: Incidence, Language Impairments, Response to Intervention, Public Schools
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Doan, Sy; Schwartz, Heather L.; Lawrence, Rebecca Ann; Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2022
This is the second of three annual reports evaluating the implementation and effects of two Delaware weighted funding programs for disadvantaged K-12 schools during the 2019-2020 to 2021-2022 school years: Opportunity Funding and the Student Success Block Grant (SSBG). The authors also examined best practices and coronavirus pandemic adaptations…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Finance, Economically Disadvantaged
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Yell, Mitchell L.; Bateman, David – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
This article begins with a scenario depicting the difficulties encountered by a young student in the Douglas County School District in Castle Rock, Colorado, named Endrew (called Drew by his parents). This situation, which began at Drew's individualized education program (IEP) meeting at Summit Ridge Elementary School when he was in fourth grade,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Individualized Education Programs, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Doan, Sy; Schwartz, Heather L.; Henry, Daniella; Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report is the first of three annual reports evaluating the implementation and effects of two newly expanded Delaware weighted education funding programs, the Opportunity Fund and the Student Success Block Grant (SSBG). The Opportunity Fund provides two streams of financial support--a flexible fund for local education agencies (LEAs) to fund…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Finance, Block Grants
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