Inclusive Education Movement

A global education reform movement advocating that students with disabilities and other additional learning needs be educated alongside their peers in mainstream classrooms rather than segregated special schools, gaining international momentum after the 1994 UNESCO Salamanca Statement, which called on governments to adopt inclusion as policy and practice. It has shaped national legislation worldwide, including the United Kingdom's Warnock-Report-era reforms and the United States' Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and continues to generate debate over adequate resourcing, teacher training and whether full inclusion serves every student's needs equally well.