With the Best Intentions: Agents, Impetus, and Consequences of Placement Decisions.

Allen, JoBeth

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ERIC Number: EJ651823

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Publication Date: 2002

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With the Best Intentions: Agents, Impetus, and Consequences of Placement Decisions.

Allen, JoBeth

Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, v18 n1 p39-66 Jan 2002

Examines the complexities of decisions about special educational services including pull-out placements and retention. Makes that complexity personal through the stories of six children whose school lives were examined for 4 years. Concludes that there are devastating human consequences to standardized solutions. (SG)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Grade Repetition, Longitudinal Studies, Special Education, Student Placement

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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