Tear Down the Special Education Walls. All Students Will Gain – Center on Reinventing Public Education

Tear Down the Special Education Walls. All Students Will Gain – Center on Reinventing Public Education

When you picture a student with a disability, what image comes to mind? Is it the student in a wheelchair? Do they have Down syndrome? Are they able to speak clearly? Often, when we think of students with disabilities, we think of children who look, sound, or behave differently from “typical kids.”  However, what we often picture isn’t reality: two-thirds of students with individualized education programs (IEPs) look exactly how one would imagine