Jumping the Queue: An Inquiry Into the Legal Treatment of Students with Learning Disabilities

by Mark Kelman and Gillian L.L. Lester

Book Overview

This book weighs alternative conceptions of the equal opportunity principle through an empirical and ethical exploration of the Federal law that directs local school districts to award special educational opportunities to students who are classified as learning disabled (LD). Mark Kelman and Gillian Lester consider the degree to which students with learning disabilities (rather than merely slow learners, the socially disadvantaged, or even the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674489098
• ISBN13: 9780674489097
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"