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Brock, Matthew E.; Schaefer, John M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2015
Despite decades of advocacy, most students with developmental disabilities continue to spend the majority of the school day in self-contained special education classrooms. However, there is tremendous variability of educational placement across the United States. Identification of geographic trends that explain this variability could provide…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Student Placement, Developmental Disabilities, Special Education
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

Safferstone, Mark – Peabody Journal of Education, 1978
The author examines trends in special education of the past five years, including court cases, emphasis on mainstreaming, categorization schemes, and behavior modification schemes, and makes projections for the next five years. (MJB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Trends, Exceptional Child Education, Mainstreaming
Stile, Stephen W.; And Others – 1991
This study investigated initial placements, current placements, and stability of placements for 1,646 graduates of special education preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-olds with developmental disabilities from 61 New Mexico school districts. Subjects graduated in four waves from 1986-87 through 1989-90. Major findings were that 10 percent of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Developmental Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies, Mainstreaming

Katsiyannis, Antonis; Zhang, Dalun; Archwamety, Tear – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2002
Analysis of placement and exit data on students with mental retardation (MR) found in annual reports on implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act indicated an upward trend in educating students with mental retardation in general education classrooms, a decline in graduation rates with a diploma or certificate, and a greater…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation, Inclusive Schools

Arkans, Joan R.; Smith, James O. – Exceptional Children, 1974
Reviewed are trends in special or regular class placement of retarded children, and stressed is the need for more special classes to serve the severely and profoundly retarded. (DB)
Descriptors: Equal Education, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation

McLeskey, James; Pacchiano, Debra – Exceptional Children, 1994
Examination of data from the "Annual Reports to Congress on the Implementation of Public Law 94-142" from 1979 through 1989 revealed that the placement rate for students with learning disabilities being educated in restrictive, separate class settings almost doubled. The proportion of all students with learning disabilities served in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation

Schurr, K. Terry; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1972
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Exceptional Child Research, Mainstreaming
Davis, Sharon – 1994
This report updates an earlier study on educational placements of children with mental retardation, comparing data from the 1989-90 school year with the 1990-91 school year. The data indicate that regular class placements increased from 6.7 percent to 7.4 percent from 1989-90 to 1990-91. Resource room placements increased from 20.1 to 23 percent,…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming
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

Kauffman, James M. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
This article sees the inclusion movement as leading to the rapid erosion of placement options for students with disabilities and notes that no single classroom can be appropriately, habilitatively restrictive for all children. It suggests that advocates of full inclusion deny realities, rights, and responsibilities involved in constructing the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
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

Mather, Nancy; Roberts, Rhia – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
This rebuttal to a criticism of the authors' article questioning the regular class placement of students with learning disabilities (LD) cites research that supports the effectiveness of special education settings for some students and highlights limitations of inclusion settings. The paper stresses that the elimination of the continuum of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education

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

Zabel, Robert H.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1988
Teachers (n=233) of behaviorally disordered students in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska were surveyed concerning time spent on: evaluation, teaching, preparation/planning, consultation, and indirect support to students. No significant differences were found between resource and self-contained classroom teachers, nor in the use of time between 1980 and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
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