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Did State Pre-Kindergarten Programs Affect the Head Start Enrollment of Children with Disabilities? A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
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Zhang, Qing; Jenkins, Jade Marcus – Exceptional Children, 2023
Little is known about how the expansion of state pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs affects low-income children with disabilities in Head Start. Using almost 30 years of administrative data of all Head Start programs and a differences-in-differences design, this study tests the possibility that, as state pre-k differentially draws relatively more…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, State Programs
Statewide Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs
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Fixsen, Dean; Blase, Karen; Metz, Allison; van Dyke, Melissa – Exceptional Children, 2013
Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily…
Descriptors: Evidence, State Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness
A Comparison of School-Based Intervention Teams: Implications for Educational and Legal Reform.
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Bahr, Michael W.; Whitten, Elizabeth; Dieker, Lisa; Kocarek, Catherine E.; Manson, David – Exceptional Children, 1999
A study examined the practices of 121 school-based intervention teams from Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Findings revealed several positive practices by teams from all states; however, teams from Illinois displayed consistent superiority across several measures. Discussion focuses on implications for practice and educational and legal reform.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
State Organizational Patterns for Education of Visually Impaired Children
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Nezol, A. James – Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Delivery Systems, Exceptional Child Services, Identification
What We Know and Need To Know about Alternate Assessment.
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Browder, Diane M.; Spooner, Fred; Algozzine, Robert; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Flowers, Claudia; Karvonen, Meagan – Exceptional Children, 2003
This article reviews promises, practices, and provisos of alternative assessment as a basis for illustrating what is known about measuring progress of students with disabilities in statewide assessment programs. Nineteen data-based studies have been used to begin to document the effects of alternative assessment. However, it is concluded there are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities