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Gottfried, Michael A.; Stiefel, Leanna; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Hopkins, Bryant – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background: While chronic absenteeism hurts all students, one particularly vulnerable group, students with disabilities (SWDs), has received little attention in research or policy. Particularly troubling is the dearth of research into the patterns of absences for SWDs and GENs who attend school together in urban school systems, given relatively…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, Students with Disabilities, Urban Schools
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Stiefel, Leanna; Shiferaw, Menbere; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Gottfried, Michael – Educational Researcher, 2018
The passage of landmark federal legislation in 1975 guaranteed students with disabilities (SWDs) a free appropriate public education. Over time, reauthorization of this legislation has highlighted the importance of educating SWDs in the general education environment where appropriate, and significant interaction with general education peers who…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys