Assessing the effects of cooperative learning on student opinions of mainstreamed special education students.

The major thrust of special education in the 1980\u27s has been to provide educational services to handicapped students in the regular education classroom with non-handicapped students. How successful has the attempt been? In 1973 when Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act and in 1975 when the United States Congress passed Public Law 94-142 that mandated an appropriate education for all handicapped children the term mainstreaming was present, but people had no idea what was appropriate mainstreaming