TY - JOUR
T1 - Focusing on educational outcomes
T2 - Challenges for special services personnel
AU - Thurlow, Martha L.
AU - Ysseldyke, James E.
PY - 1994/8/9
Y1 - 1994/8/9
N2 - National education goals, content standards, and national tests are the hot topics of the day in educational reform. Special services personnel eventually will be faced with these issues, and can either be part of the discussion from the beginning, or wait and have to deal with someone else’s decisions. In this article, we highlight some recent national and state educational reform activities and their probable implications for students with disabilities. We explain in brief the impetus behind the thrust toward an outcomesbased approach to education, and summarize the response of the National Center on Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities to this push. Possible ways in which special service providers can act to influence the focus on outcomes are described.
AB - National education goals, content standards, and national tests are the hot topics of the day in educational reform. Special services personnel eventually will be faced with these issues, and can either be part of the discussion from the beginning, or wait and have to deal with someone else’s decisions. In this article, we highlight some recent national and state educational reform activities and their probable implications for students with disabilities. We explain in brief the impetus behind the thrust toward an outcomesbased approach to education, and summarize the response of the National Center on Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities to this push. Possible ways in which special service providers can act to influence the focus on outcomes are described.
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U2 - 10.1300/J008v08n02_11
DO - 10.1300/J008v08n02_11
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957992326
SN - 0739-9820
VL - 8
SP - 167
EP - 183
JO - Special Services in the Schools
JF - Special Services in the Schools
IS - 2
ER -