A new study, A Propensity Score Matching Analysis of the Effects of Special Education Services, was published in the February 2010 issue of The Journal of Special Education.
According to authors, this study found some disturbing results:
"...we found that special education services had negative or statistically nonsignificant effects on young children's reading and mathematics skills. We found that children receiving special education services in the spring of 2002 displayed significantly lower reading skills in the spring of 2004 than closely matched peers not receiving such services."
"... our study finds little evidence that special education services, as currently being implemented in U.S. schools, are positively affecting the learning or behavior of most children with disabilities, despite the substantial resources being invested in the provision of such services" and concludes, "Our study's findings add much urgency to efforts to increase the effectiveness of special education services being delivered in U.S schools."
To read the full article, see the attached.
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