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Frankenberg, Erica; McDermott, Kathryn A.; DeBray, Elizabeth; Blankenship, Ann Elizabeth – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education distributed $2,500,000 via a competitive grant program, the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans, to 11 school districts. The grants and their local effects provide an opportunity to examine the new politics of diversity in public education. Participants cited a wide range of conceptions of…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, School Districts
Vershok, Anna – Thinking Classroom, 2003
Notes that the Moscow Center for the Integration and Education of Refugee Children attempts to provide real schooling for refugee children displaced from the Chechen Republic. Suggests main task was to prepare the children for regular school, and to help them adapt to both their new school and their new home, Moscow. Hopes this experience may help…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, High Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Education Response Centre. – 1990
This paper reviews the concept of integration, identifies present practices in Alberta (Canada), and describes related issues and trends. Terms are clarified, current initiatives are outlined, the effectiveness of integration is discussed, and the legal and judicial context is examined. The North American experience with integration is briefly…
Descriptors: Costs, Disabilities, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Olson, Paul; Burns, George – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1983
Two frequently made claims about French immersion programs in Canada are analyzed: (1) the planning and implementation of such programs is adequate as practiced to satisfy participants within the program; and (2) resulting improvements in French learning are likely to achieve federal policymakers' goals of ameliorating animosities between…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, English
Guttmann, Mary Alice Julius – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1983
There is more to French immersion programs in Canada than social class analysis. Program success is determined not by social class per se, but by use of appropriate strategies, staff, resources, and curriculum implementation. (CJ)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, English
O'Grady, Carolyn – 1990
Three examples of successful integration efforts in England are presented. Springfield Junior School in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, originally comprised three separate institutions--an ordinary junior school, a special unit for children with severe learning difficulties, and a special unit for children with moderate learning difficulties. The three…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Morra, Linda G. – 1994
This paper presents the testimony concerning special education reform and inclusion programs of the Director of Education and Employment Issues before a House of Representatives subcommittee. The speaker concludes that inclusion programs can work (as in districts in California, Kentucky, New York, and Vermont) but take tremendous effort and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Trends
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MacLeod, Fiona – British Journal of Special Education, 2001
This article describes the design and outcomes of a project to promote the reintegration of pupils with emotional and behavioral difficulties at transfer to secondary school. It reports on a series of successful placements and discusses the factors that have helped sustain the inclusion of the pupils. (Contains four references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Inclusive Schools
Dillon, Ann Donoghue, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This booklet presents photographs and quotations illustrating the effective inclusion of children with disabilities in New Hampshire's public schools. The booklet was created to acknowledge and celebrate families, educators, and communities who have welcomed all students into neighborhood schools and classrooms; to energize dedicated people who…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Fritz, Marie F.; Miller, Maury – 1996
This paper briefly addresses critical issues in documenting studies of the effectiveness of inclusive education for students with disabilities and includes a summary table of the existing literature and guidelines for problem solving about inclusion. The importance of sound methodology in documenting effects of inclusion and the dangers of value…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Villa, Richard A., Ed.; Thousand, Jacqueline S., Ed. – 1995
This collection of readings in support of inclusive education for students with disabilities offers rationales for inclusion, personal accounts of individuals involved, and strategies for facilitating change. Stressed throughout is the idea that inclusion is an attitude or belief system, not an action or set of actions. The readings identify…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy
Lewis, Horacio D., Ed. – 1988
This monograph comprises 10 articles grouped under a single title on the following aspects of school desegregation in Delaware: (1) the true meaning of desegregation in the light of current concerns; (2) the effect on Hispanic and other students; and (3) its personal impact. The following school and community representatives contributed to the…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Fuchs, Douglas; And Others – 1994
The debate about whether special education should abolish or conserve its cascade of services model has produced conservationists, who believe in a case-by-case approach to integration by which movement into less restrictive settings is planned, implemented, and evaluated individually, and abolitionists, who work for full inclusion of all students…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Based Assessment, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Howard, Ronald A., Ed. – 1983
The articles in this monograph reflect varying points of view as expressed by state and local education administrators, parents, and students concerning the provision of distinctive services for language-minority students. The introduction provides a legislative history of educational programs and services for limited-English speaking students.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Lipsky, Dorothy Kerzner; Gartner, Alan – NCERI Bulletin, 1995
This bulletin summarizes research on the benefits of inclusive education programs; provides data on the current status of special education; and considers studies of individual inclusion programs, state and district studies, and the effects of inclusion on students without disabilities. The research and evaluation data on inclusion indicate a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
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