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Article: Students with disabilities making strides, study finds.(FOCUS: Education: Online vs. Offline)
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- Fairfield County Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 8, 2005
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Students with disabilities have made significant progress in their transition to adulthood during the past 25 years with lower dropout rates, an increase in postsecondary enrollment and a higher rate of gainful employment after leaving high school, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Education.
The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 documents the experiences of a national sample of students over several years as they moved from secondary school into adult roles. The report shows that the incidence of students with disabilities completing high school rather than dropping out increased by 17 percentage points between 1987 and 2003.
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