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BuckminsterFuller · 04-01-2015, 04:03 PM

There is a difference between hearsay and anecdotal. My sister's reports are anecdotal from her experience as a special needs teaching assistant.

It is an issue I have been researching as I am in the process of selecting a school for my son to start next year.

To date, I have seen studies on how it improves the learning for the special needs students and aside comments that it helps the regular student population with learning compassion for others, however I have found nothing on the academic benefits to the regular student population. if Driveway has some info, I would be happy to read it.

Everything I have read so far shows segregation becomes inevitable at advanced grades and development. Is prolonging that inevitability at a cost to the academic advancement of the regular students?

04-01-2015, 04:03 PM	#72
BuckminsterFuller Crash and Bang Winger Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: behind door #3 Exp:	There is a difference between hearsay and anecdotal. My sister's reports are anecdotal from her experience as a special needs teaching assistant. It is an issue I have been researching as I am in the process of selecting a school for my son to start next year. To date, I have seen studies on how it improves the learning for the special needs students and aside comments that it helps the regular student population with learning compassion for others, however I have found nothing on the academic benefits to the regular student population. if Driveway has some info, I would be happy to read it. Everything I have read so far shows segregation becomes inevitable at advanced grades and development. Is prolonging that inevitability at a cost to the academic advancement of the regular students? Last edited by BuckminsterFuller; 04-01-2015 at 04:05 PM.