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Stallones, Jared – American Educational History Journal, 2020
The final decades of the twentieth century were rife with education reform. "A Nation at Risk" (1983) compared American schools to their counterparts in other countries, and found America wanting while E.D. Hirsch and others decried Americans' lack of knowledge of their own institutions and heritage (Hirsch 1987). These alarms caused…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Education, Primary Education, Nongraded Instructional Grouping
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Guarino, Cassandra M.; Chambers, Jay G. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2001
A study investigated the impact of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) on special education by collected data on all 176 school districts for 1989-90 through 1993-94. Findings indicate that KERA had a significant impact on the provision of, and allocation of resources to, special education five years after implementation. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Educational Finance, Educational Innovation