Student Diversity

The increasing diversity of students has led to a dubious system of categorizing and placing students into special classes or programs. For example, Ysseldyke et al. (1983) reported that as many as 80 percent of all children could be classified as learning disabled by the procedures now in use in the nation's schools. Even if these procedures were reliable, research has produced no evidence that students who fall behind in their learning need different kinds of instruction; rather, research suggests these students need more instruction, which they seldom receive in these specialized programs (Wang, Reynolds, & Walberg,1994).

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