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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Barry M.

Series:

SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy.

SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning disabled children--Education--United States--History.

Learning disabled children.

Children with mental disabilities--Education--Georgia--Atlanta--Case studies.

Children with mental disabilities.

Learning disabled children--Education--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Summary:

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 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. Barry M. Franklin is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education at Kennesaw State College. He is the author of Building the American Community: The School Curriculum and the Search for Social Control and is the editor of Learning Disability: Dissenting Essays .

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword by William J. Reese""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""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""" "Notes""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Epilogue""; ""Bibliographical Note""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4384-0323-2