Title From "backwardness" to "at-risk" : childhood learning difficulties and the contradictions of school reform / Barry M. Franklin

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 208 pages) Series SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy. Contents Foreword / William J. Reese -- 1. Learning Difficulties and the American Public School: A Conceptual Framework -- 2. Educating Atlanta's Backward Children, 1898-1924 -- 3. From Backwardness to L.D.: Medicalizing the Discourse of Learning Difficulties -- 4. Private Philanthropy and the Education of Children with Learning Difficulties: From the Junior League School for Speech Correction to Whittaker Center -- 5. The Struggle for School Reform in Minneapolis: Building Public School Programs for Low-Achieving Youth, 1930-1970 -- Epilogue: At-Risk Children and the Common School Ideal Summary This book examines the joint effort of twentieth-century public schoool administrators and private philanthropy to initiate reforms to provide for children with learning difficulties. The author explores the development of these reforms from the establishment of special classes for backward children at the beginning of the century to the creation of programs for learning disabled children. He considers what this history tells us about current efforts to provide for at-risk students. He looks at both the way school administrators conceptualized childhood learning difficulties and the institutional arrangements which they introduced to accommodate these students, and pays particular attention to the preference of school administrators throughout this century for accommodating low achieving children in segregated classes and programs Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Learning disabled children -- Education -- United States -- History Children with mental disabilities -- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Case studies Learning disabled children -- Education -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Case studies EDUCATION -- Special Education -- Physical Disabilities. Children with mental disabilities -- Education Learning disabled children -- Education Georgia -- Atlanta Minnesota -- Minneapolis United States Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585044651 9780585044651 9780791419076 079141907X 9780791419083 0791419088

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