“…The lack of a practical definition of mainstreaming confounded contemporary reform efforts, just as defining LRE in practical terms continues to plague educators in the 1990's as they attempt to include special education into the framework of current school-wide reform efforts. & Others, 1988;Carlberg & Kavale, 1980;Edgar, 1987;Glass, 1983;Hagerty & Abramson, 1987;Kavale & Glass, 1982;Reynolds & Wang, 1983, Ysseldyke, Thurlow, Christenson & Weiss, 1987 began to question the efficacy of segregated special education services that were developed in response to PL 94-142. Negative student outcomes on measures of academic achievement, student self-esteem and in post-high school employment opportunities were used as the basis for a call for a more extensive restructuring of special education.…”