There continues to be an achievement gap between children with IEPs and others. The National Center for Educational Outcomes recently issued a report on the achievement gaps for kids on IEPs as compared to others and for ELL kids as compared to others. Although there are problems with the way that the data is collected by the various states, the report is an important read.
Among the conclusions for the 2012-2013 school year is the following:
The achievement gaps between students with and
without IEPs in reading and mathematics continue. This report presented average
achievement gaps for elementary, middle school, and high school levels. As in
past reports, there were smaller overall gaps in elementary reading and
mathematics than at the middle school and high school levels. At the middle
school and high school levels, for reading and mathematics, the average gaps
across states spanned from 36 percentage points to 41 percentage points for
2012-13. Because states vary in the methods they use to publicly report data,
this influences the achievement gaps reported. Report is at: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/nceo/OnlinePubs/Tech70/TechnicalReport70.pdf Other valuable information is available on the NCEO website
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