Beyond IEPs: When Inclusion Becomes Exclusion — and What Must Change

By Kevin A Starlings

What happens after the IEP ends?

In Beyond IEPs, educator and advocate Kevin A. Starlings delivers a powerful examination of how special education systems often prioritize compliance over true student outcomes. Drawing from over 15 years in education and disability advocacy, Starlings explores the hidden gaps between inclusion, transition planning, workforce readiness, and real-world adulthood success for students with disabilities.

Blending lived experience, educational research, and systems-based insight, Beyond IEPs challenges educators, parents, policymakers, and communities to rethink how we define support, preparedness, and opportunity.

At its core, this book asks one urgent question:

Are we preparing students to graduate - or preparing them to thrive?

Beyond IEPs is a bold call to redesign the conditions that shape learning, dignity, and long-term human outcomes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1HKSMZ3
• ISBN13: 9798196530517
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"