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Kleinert, Harold; Towles-Reeves, Elizabeth; Quenemoen, Rachel; Thurlow, Martha; Fluegge, Lauren; Weseman, Laura; Kerbel, Allison – Exceptional Children, 2015
Surveying 15 states and 39,837 students, this study examined the extent to which students who took an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards in the 2010--2011 school year had access to regular education settings and the extent to which that access correlated with expressive communication, use of an augmentative or…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Student Placement, Curriculum, General Education
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Minnema, Jane; Elliott, Judy; Barboza, Jane; Thurlow, Martha; VanGetson, Gretchen – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2006
School districts, like many other societal groups, function as a system--a dynamically complex web of interaction in which each aspect of the district affects all other aspects. School districts have many outside forces to which they must respond, including state and federal mandates. These mandates impose top-down initiatives with little to no…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, School Districts, Limited English Speaking, State Programs
Thurlow, Martha; Hurley, Christine; Spicuzza, Richard; El Sawaf, Hamdy – 1996
This report reviews the current literature (mostly since 1993) on testing accommodations for students with disabilities, with an emphasis on studies examining the effects of testing accommodations on the technical integrity of assessment measures. The report notes a continuing lack of empirical research on testing accommodations, but evidence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Trends