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Inclusive Education (General)

• Innocenti Insight: Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States
  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
  --"UNICEF IRC has tracked and explored the impact on children and their families of economic and social changes in the region since transition began."
  
  
• The Dakar Framework for Action
  Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments
  -- Adopted by the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal April 2000, the Framework urges countries to establish quality basic education for all students by 2015 or earlier.
  
  
• EFA Flagship Initiatives
  Multi-Partner Collaborative Mechanisms in Support of EFA Goals
  -- Each initiative outlines a set of activities that focus on specific challenges that must be addressed in order to achieve the EFA goals. These initiatives are intended to be conducted in a collaborative effort by United Nations partners.
  
  
• The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action
  World Conference on Special Needs Education: Access and Quality.
  -- Adopted by the World Conference on Special Needs Education in Salamanca, Spain, June 1994, this statement "urges all governments to adopt as a matter of law or policy the principle of inclusive education, enrolling all children in regular school".
  
  
• Education for All and Children with Disabilities: International Policy and Practice
  The Consortium Brief, #10, May 2003
  -- Discusses the goals of the Dakar Framework for Action, Flagship on Education for All and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Towards Inclusion, World Declaration for Education for All, Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disability, and the UNESCO Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action.
  
  
• Effective Inclusion: Professional Development in the Context of the Classroom
  "Teaching Exceptional Children", Vol. 35, #6, July/August 2003 (PDF format)
  
  
• The Impact of Inclusion on Language Development and Social Competence Among Preschoolers With Disabilities
  "Exceptional Children", Vol. 69, #4, Summer 2003 (PDF format)
  
  
• Inclusive Education-A Worldwide Movement
  Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education
  
  
• Introduction to the What Works Briefs
  "What Works Briefs" #1
  
  
• NICHCY Publications Catalog
  National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
  
  
• To Light A Beacon: What Administrators Can Do To Make Schools Successful For All Students
  ERIC/OSEP Topical Brief - February 2002