DOCUMENT RESUME ED 460 449 EC 306 624 AUTHOR Ferguson, Dianne L.; Meyer, Gwen; Dalmau, Mary; Droege, Cleo; Ferguson, Philip M.; Gudjonsdottir, Hafdis; Katul, Nadia; Lester, Jackie; Moore, Caroline; Oxley, Diana; Ralph, Ginevra; Rivers, Eileen TITLE Reinventing Schools Research Project: Collaborative Research Project on the Merger of General and Special Education School Reforms. Final Report--Executive Summary (Long Version). INSTITUTION Oregon Univ., Eugene. Specialized Training Programs. SPONS AGENCY Special Education Prognims (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 797p.; For the shorter version of this report, see EC 306 580. Some figures may not reproduce well. CONTRACT H086D40002 AVAILABLE FROM Schools Projects, Specialized Training Program, College of Education, 1235 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. Tel: 541-346-5313; TDD: 541-346-2466; Fax: 541-346-5517; e-mail:
[email protected]. PUB TYPE Reports Research .(143) Tests/Questionnaires (160) EDRS PRICE MF05/PC32 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Curriculum Design; Delivery Systems; Educational Change; *Educational Innovation; Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; *Inclusive Schools; Mainstreaming; Policy Formation; *Regular and Special Education Relationship; *Severe Disabilities; Teacher Collaboration; *Teacher Education ABSTRACT This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a federally-funded project that investigated how the inclusion of students with severe and other disabilities merges with larger efforts of educators, administrators, and parents to restructure and reform schools, and how to influence the directions of that merger. The project explored how school personnel blend together their reform agendas of both general and special education in 25 schools in 3 districts, and validated a set of procures of redesigning curriculum/teaching, ensuring student learning outcomes, and fostering student membership for maximally diverse groups of learners, including learners with severe disabilities.