Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.1, 13 December, 2004

Over the twentieth century, a growing group of students has been transferred into considerably expanded special education systems. These programs serve children with diagnosed impairments and disabilities and students with a variety of learning difficulties. Children and youth “with special educational needs” constitute a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, and physical disadvantages. An increasingly large percentage of those students at risk of leaving school without credentials participate in special education, a highly legitimated low status (and stigmatizing) school form. While most countries commit themselves to school integration or inclusive education to replace segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional comparisons of special education’s diverse student bodies show considerable disparities in their (1) rates of classification, (2) provided learning opportunities, and (3) educational attainments. Analyzing special education demographics and organizational structures indicates which children and youth are most likely to grow up less educated and how educational systems distribute educational success and failure. Findings from a German-American comparison show that which students bear the greatest risk of becoming less educated depends largely on definitions of “special educational needs” and the institutionalization of special education systems.

Special education and the Hispanic child : proceedings from the second annual Colloquium on Hispanic Issues /

"August 1981."

Postsecondary education and the new workforce /

"PLLI 96-8005"--P. [4] of cover.

Education and the good life /

Mode of access: Internet.

World Beats : Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature /

A study of the Beat-era writers in a global context. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

The British colonial library, comprising a popular and authentic description of all the colonies of the British empire, their history - physical geography - geology - climate - animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms - government - finance - military defence - commerce - shipping -monetary system - religion - population, white and coloured - education and the press - emigration, social state, &c.

Published in 1834-35 under the title: History of the British colonies.

Education and the future of Florida, a digest of the report of the comprehensive study of education in Florida.

Mode of access: Internet.

Compilation of the public school laws of New Mexico, 1914; extracts from the state constitution, comp. laws of 1897 and subsequent territorial session laws, together with all school laws passed by the first and second sessions of the state Legislature, relative to education and the forms used in school administration and a directors' guide.

Mode of access: Internet.

Massachusetts youth study. A report relating to the education and the employment of the youth of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

At head of title: ... The commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Survey of Illinois school districts on the service quality provided by the Illinois State Board of Education and the Regional Offices of Education annual report.

"Pursuant to Public Act 89-212, enacted in 1995. The Act specifies that the survey should annually evaluate the nature and quality ..."

Lectures on the history and progress of modern education, and the effects of literature, science and legislation upon religion, moral, and national character.

Mode of access: Internet.

The memoirs of the late Miss Emma Humphries, of Frome, England, with a series of letters to young ladies, on the influence of religion in the formation of their moral and intellectual character: and to parents, on the religious education and the bereavement of their children.

Mode of access: Internet.

Common sense on chronic diseases, or, A rational treatise on the mechanical cause and cure of most chronic affections of the truncal organs of both male and female systems : embracing the author's views on physical education, and the present popular system of artificial life /

Included in the original collection of the Starling Medical College.

A socio-psychological study of conforming and deviating behavior among adolescents; a final report of research under contract project 507 (8133) a cooperative research project of the United States Office of Education and the State University of Iowa. Project staff: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., project director [and] Albert Lewis Rhodes, research associate.

"The first two years of this three year project were undertaken as Cooperative Research Project 6399, by Vanderbilt University and the U.S. Office of Education."