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Farkas, George; Morgan, Paul L.; Hillemeier, Marianne M.; Mitchell, Cynthia; Woods, Adrienne D. – Exceptional Children, 2020
To examine whether special education racial risk ratios reported by U.S. school districts are explained by district-level confounds, particularly, racial achievement gaps, we analyzed merged data (N = 1,952 districts for Black-White comparisons; N = 2,571 districts for Hispanic-White comparisons) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of…
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences
Wexler, Jade; Kearns, Devin M.; Lemons, Christopher J.; Mitchell, Marisa; Clancy, Erin; Davidson, Kimberly A.; Sinclair, Anne C.; Wei, Yan – Exceptional Children, 2018
This study reports practices implemented in over 2,000 minutes by 16 middle school special education and general education co-teaching pairs in English language arts classes. We report the extent to which teachers integrated literacy activities that support reading comprehension, the co-teaching models used, and the frequency with which each…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Team Teaching
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Flowers, Claudia; Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn – Exceptional Children, 2006
Recent guidelines for No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; 2001) permit the use of alternate achievement standards for counting up to 1% of students with significant cognitive disabilities as proficient in adequate yearly progress (AYP) calculations. This provision increases the importance of assessing the technical quality of alternate…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, State Standards, Academic Standards
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1994
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition was implemented with elementary school regular, remedial, and special education students as an approach for organizing reading and language arts instruction. Compared to a control school, the experimental school found significant effects on reading vocabulary, total reading, and language scores but…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Heterogeneous Grouping