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Article: Accessing the general education math curriculum for secondary students with high-incidence disabilities.
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- Focus on Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Both international and national assessments indicate that secondary students in the United States experience difficulty in learning mathematics and score below many of their international counterparts. In particular, data from two international educational assessments, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Gonzales et al., 2004) and the Program for International Student Assessment (Baldi, Jin, Skemer, Green, & Herget, 2007), show that students in the United States are performing below the level of many other industrialized countries in mathematics. Policy makers, educators, and parents use outcomes from TIMSS and PISA to determine the quality of the ...