Villa, Richard A.

" ... offers administrators, teachers, and other educators working to promote inclusion a wealth of information about: the history and research base of inclusive education in the United States; ... essential curricular and instructional practices for inclusive schools, such as heterogeneous grouping, creative problem solving, and co-teaching; powerful organizational structures such as Multitiered System of Support and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports to help optimize the benefits of differentiation for all students; and a conceptual framework for coordinating educational initiatives and best practices for educating all students in general education."--Amazon.com.

Contains practical information for implementing a co-teaching or team-teaching program within the classroom including individual accountability, roles and responsibilities, parallel teaching, and using students as co-teachers.

Presents a collection of eight essays that describes the inclusion of students with disabilities in the regular classroom, and discusses cooperative learning programs and multicultural education as well as ways to facilitate change to accommodate special education students.

Presents eight essays on inclusive schooling--the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms--discussing various instructional strategies, explaining how to adapt curricula, and listing several further resources.