Tacoma's progressive inclusion program pervaded district operations and limited out-of-district placements to two over twenty years¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1983 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? After Tacoma closed its separate school for moderately to severely handicapped children and re-established programs in regular schools, out-of-district placements were limited to two in the past twenty years. → Farrow 1983

Evidence¶

Farrow 1983¶

Farrow, Frank, and Cheryl Rogers. (1983). Policies Which Address Out-of-District Placements and Assure Education in the Least Restrictive Environment. A Report of the Handicapped Public Policy Analysis Project, Volume 3. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED245469

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Case description of Tacoma Public Schools' progressive inclusion system, developed after a two and one half year study, based on the report's site data. The district closed its separate school and re-established programs in regular schools; no effect size is reported.

"This "progressive inclusion" program now pervades all aspects of public school operations and has limited to two the number of out -of- district placements occuring in the past twenty years."

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