Education is Special for Everyone: How Schools can Best Serve all Students

Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special needs into the regular classroom has brought both benefits and concerns for average and above average students.

Special education in the United States has evolved from institutional and segregat...