Impact: Feature issue on revisiting inclusive K-12 education (vol. 16, no. 1)

2004

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Why revisit inclusive education? It has been six years since the last issue of IMPACT dedicated to this topic. Since that time much has been learned about what inclusion means and how to make it happen. The purpose of this issue is to provide an update from a variety of informed perspectives -- families, educators, researchers, and policymakers. It is hoped that the stories, strategies, and reflections shared will affirm the commitments of people who have made creating inclusive school communities a central focus in their lives and work. We also hope to encourage continued good works on behalf of today's children and youth so that they grow up and learn together well in our increasingly diverse society. With this issue we also want to honor the legacy of inclusion pioneer Marsha Forest, who passed away June 2, 2000, after a 12-year struggle with cancer. Marsha co-founded, with her husband Jack Pearpoint, the Centre for Integrated Education and Community (now the Marsha Forest Centre), and Inclusion Press, in Toronto. Marsha waged love and battles in classrooms; living rooms; church, synagogue, and mosque basements; union halls; lecture theatres; auditoriums; court rooms; and university lecture halls to help us see and work toward the vision of inclusion and justice for all. Her message to us, then and now, is that we must build a better world for our children, and that we must never give up.

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