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Cardona, Cristina M. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2009
Over the past decades significant changes have occurred throughout all aspects of the field of Special Education in Spain. One of these changes is related to appropriate and effective instruction for students with disabilities and diverse educational needs in inclusive classroom placements. All of these change efforts have created the need to…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools, Social Integration, Disabilities
Luster, Jane Nell; Durrett, John – 2000
This paper discusses the outcomes of a longitudinal study that investigated whether significant change has occurred in the number of Louisiana students in general education, resource, and separation placements from 1990 to 1999; whether significant differences in placement by age category have continued; and which school systems show a tendency…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disabilities, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Handler, Beth R. – 2003
This study provides an evaluation of the national and state level educational environmental placement trends for students, ages 6-11 or 12-17, with learning disabilities (LD), emotional disabilities (ED), mental retardation (MR), or speech and language impairments (SLI) in the decade following implementation of the Regular Education Initiative…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
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Baumgartner, Dana; And Others – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1993
Unstructured comments of 509 parents of students in regular, resource, and self-contained classrooms regarding homework, tests, and grades revealed 8 broad themes: complaints, traditional beliefs about education, alternative beliefs about education, communication issues, beliefs about involvement, stress factors, involvement dependent on child…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading, Homework
Wilcox, Daryl J.; Wigle, Stanley E. – 1997
This study investigated the changes in the mainstreaming practices of five school districts, which were originally described in a 1974 study by Birch. The districts involved were: Tacoma (Washington), Richardson (Texas), Plano (Texas), Tucson (Arizona), and Louisville (Kentucky). Survey forms were sent to superintendents of the original six…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Phillips, Frank M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This report contains statistics of schools and classes for feeble-minded and for subnormal children. These children are instructed in three types of schools. State schools and private schools accept mental defectives who are not insane nor charged with criminal acts. The city day schools accept children who are subnormal, backward, and mentally…
Descriptors: Nongraded Instructional Grouping, Special Needs Students, Individualized Instruction, Mental Retardation