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Article: Teachers' Attitudes Toward Their Included Students with Disabilities.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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The inclusion of students with disabilities into general education classrooms is one of the most contentious policy reforms in contemporary education (Fuchs & Fuchs, 1994), with direct implications for the educational opportunities and quality of life for students with and without disabilities. Despite a lack of unequivocal empirical support, the prevalence of inclusion "has increased consistently and substantially" in recent years (McLeskey, Henry, & Hodges, 1998, p. 9). In their recent analysis of Annual Reports to Congress, McCleskey et al. indicated that inclusive placements increased 60% from 1988-89 to 1994-95, at which time well over 2 million students with ...