Special education and school reform in the United States and Britain
/ edited by Margaret J. McLaughlin and Martyn Rouse
- USA : Routledge, 2000
- xii, 201 p.
Introduction: the struggles for reform; Defining difference: a comparative perspective on legal and policy issues in education reform and special educational needs; Standards and curriculum: the core of educational reform; National assessment and special education in the United States and England and Wales: towards a common system all?; Educational accountability needs policy and choice: tensions b/w policy development in the US and UK contexts; The changing governance of education and its comparative; impact on special education in UK and the US; Funding of special education in the US and England and Wales