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The History of Special Education: A Struggle for Equality in American Public Schools

ISBN: 9780275989132 | 0275989135
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: ABC CLIO LTD
Pub. Date: 11/30/2007

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Osgood examines the history of the school lives of children placed in formal or informal special education settings in American public schools during the last 120 years. As the public school system in the United States grew throughout the 20th century, special education became a recognized and dependable, but marginalized, arm of public schooling. Throughout the 1900s, special education emerged as its own world in many ways, developing policies, practices, structures, and an identity that became increasingly important as the public school burea... MORE
Series Forewordp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductionp. xiii
The Changing Worlds of American Children, 1800-1940p. 1
Life in Institutions to 1940p. 23
Public Schools and the Accommodation of Students with Disabilities to 1940p. 41
The Worlds of Childhood Disability, 1940-1960: Generating Public Awarenessp. 79
Ensuring the Rights and Enhancing the Li... MOREp. 99
Voices of the Present, Echoes from the Past: Considering the Lives of Children with Disabilitiesp. 123
Bibliographyp. 137
Name Indexp. 151
Subject Indexp. 153
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Robert L. Osgood is Associate Professor of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.


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