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The Inclusive Education Series: A conversation with Doug Fuchs
Can students with disabilities be fully included in general education classrooms? Or are there times when separate, specialized instruction is not only appropriate but necessary?
In the second episode of our Inclusive Education Series, I sit down with Doug Fuchs, one of the most influential special education researchers of the last four decades. Doug offers a perspective that challenges many of the assumptions behind today's inclusion movement.
We discuss what inclusive education actually means, why he believes the general education classroom should always be the starting point—but not always…
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