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Article: Thinking of inclusion for all special needs students: better think again. (failure of school programs that include special education students in regular public school classes)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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Full inclusion, in which the regular education teacher must learn a monumental number of additional skills in order to deal with both special and regular education students, may be state-of-the art education for the Nineties -- the 1890s, that is -- according to Messrs. Smelter, Rasch, and Yudewitz.
NO ONE can deny that "inclusion" is among the hottest topics in education today. It is virtually impossible to pick up an education journal without finding at least one article dealing with the subject. Everyone seems to agree that inclusion is an important issue, but few can agree as to exactly what inclusion is. Among the range of possible definitions for inclusion, ...