Findings from University of Virginia Update Knowledge of Education (Hard Lre Choices In the Era of Inclusion: Rights and Their Implications): Education

2024 JUN 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Daily Report -- Researchers detail new data in Education. According to news reporting originating in Charlottesville, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Rights of students are often misunderstood. Civil rights of minorities granted by the U.S.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Virginia, “Supreme Court are confused with human rights of individuals with disabilities granted by the U.S. Congress. Federal law applying to education of individuals with disabilities requires that difficult decisions be made by families and schools regarding how to provide four different and interrelated provisions of Public Law 94-142 of 1975 (now the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 or IDEA): (a) a free appropriate public education (FAPE), (b) an Individualized Education Program (IEP), © placement in the least restrictive environment (LRE), and (d) a full continuum of alternative placements (CAP).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Special attention is given to LRE because the full inclusion movement and other influences related to a portion of disability studies have made it the central issue in special education.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Hard Lre Choices In the Era of Inclusion: Rights and Their Implications. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2023;34(1):61-72. Journal of Disability Policy Studies can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Journal of Disability Policy Studies - dps.sagepub.com)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting James M. Kauffman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22920, United States. Additional authors for this research include Mack D. Burke and Dimitris Anastasiou.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221113074. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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