Inclusive Education in the United States and Internationally: Challenges and Response

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Mark C. Weber

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special education, disability studies, inclusion

Abstract

Achieving inclusion of children with disabilities in general education remains a challenge.  This article discusses United States and international legal developments and relates educational inclusion to controversies within the disability studies movement.  It considers questions that have been raised about integrated education and concludes that inclusion should remain the goal, but that more attention must be devoted to making educational inclusion work.

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