No Child Left Behind: Improving Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Improving Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities explores how attitudes and expectations for students with disabilities are changing as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Overall, there is strong support for increasing expectations for students with disabilities and helping them to improve their academic outcomes. At the same time, there is concern about how states and schools will manage this process, largely as a function of lack of knowledge of effective interventions and strategies.

The paper, written by American Youth Policy Forum and Educational Policy Institute, was commissioned by National Council on Disability to assist policy leaders and stakeholders in identifying, disseminating, and aligning evidence-based practices with the Federal Government's commitment to leaving no child behind in the attainment of a free appropriate and high quality public education.

Copies are only available online at www.aypf.org.

The activities of the American Youth Policy Forum are made possible by the support of a consortium of philanthropic foundations: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Ford Motor Company Fund, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GE Fund, William T. Grant Foundation, George Gund Foundation, J&M Foundation, Walter S. Johnson Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Charles S. Mott Foundation, Wallace Funds, Joseph and May Winston Foundation, and others.