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This book explores the historical origins and institutional shape of special education across the American states. It begins with the decade of the 1840s as states anticipated the legislation of compulsory attendance laws. With these laws, the institutional beginnings of special education emerge defined by the exemption of physically and mentally handicapped youth and by the power of schools to exclude juvenile delinquent youth as well. With the passage of these laws states formalized the "rules of access" to a common schooling, thereby structuring the school age population into three segments: the common, delinquent, and special. As the worlds of delinquency and exceptionality progressively encroached upon public schools, their inclusion has been the central force behind the expansion of special education; as a structure of handicapping categories and as a professional field within education generally. This institutional expansion of special education has occurred over the past thirty years, and has reshaped public education by defining the "rules of passage."
This text provides a comprehensive and current overview of the major federal laws that apply to the education of children with disabilities. The text helps students understand what the law requires so that when they become educators, they can develop policies and make decisions that comply with these laws.
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Ebenezer Brown (1801-1879) was of the son of William and Hanna Sweet Brown. He was born in Herkimer (formerly Montgomery) County, New York. He and Ann Weaver were married in 1823. The family moved to Far West, Missouri in 1838. He married Phebe Draper Palmer in 1842 and joined the Mormon Battalion soon after.