At long last, the accountability movement has reached the forgotten shores of special education. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, school systems across the country have been forced to disclose the abysmally low academic test scores of students with disabilities. Education Week conducted a survey, reported in Quality Counts 2004, that found a chasm in which the performance scores of students with disabilities were typically 30 percent to 40 percent below those of other students. The longer the...