From Backwardness to At-Risk: Childhood Learning Difficulties and the Contradictions of School Reform

by Barry M. Franklin

Book Overview

This book examines the joint effort of twentieth-century public school 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791419088
• ISBN13: 9780791419083
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"