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Secondary Psychiatric Schools: Characteristics and Approaches to Curriculum
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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin; Van Loan, Christopher L.; Barber, Brian R. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
This study focused on approaches to curriculum, as well as school, principal, and student characteristics in secondary day treatment and residential psychiatric schools. A national random sample of 148 principals responded to a survey. No statistically significant differences existed between respondent and nonrespondent schools with regard to…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Disabilities, Instructional Materials, Student Characteristics
Inclusion: The Broken Promise.
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Guetzloe, Eleanor – Preventing School Failure, 1999
Discusses the failure of schools to prepare students with disabilities, their peers, the faculty, or the environment before placing a student with a disability in the general-education classroom. Components of a quality program for students with disabilities are described, including an appropriate curriculum and specific successful classroom…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Inclusion of Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A Survey of Teachers in General and Special Education.
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Heflin, L. Juane; Bullock, Lyndal M. – Preventing School Failure, 1999
A survey of nine special educators and nine general educators in three Texas schools found that inclusion for students with emotional/behavioral disorders was being implemented due to administrative impetus and was not carefully planned, and that both special- and general-education teachers believe they need training related to inclusion and…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances