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Article Review Number Two (Instruction in the Inclusive Classroom)
The article, “A Case Study of a Highly Effective, Inclusive Elementary School,” (2015), discusses how schools are being held accountable to ensure that every student, even the ones that have a disability, have a chance to participate, are able to make academic progress, and be included the general education classroom (McLeskey, Waldron, & Redd, 2012, p. 59). There are very schools that actually have all of the items listed above their school.
An investigation was done to examine the qualities in an inclusive school. Some of the items that were examined were “Student Support and Instructional Quality and Administrative and Organizational Features” (McLeskey, Waldron, & Redd,

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