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Torch (December 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (December 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
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Torch (October 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (October 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
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Torch (August 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (August 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
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Sam Gen Ms 01 Jean Byers Sampson Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton, Susannah Clark
Sam Gen Ms 01 Jean Byers Sampson Papers Finding Aid, John D. Knowlton, Susannah Clark
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Jean Byers Sampson was a 1944 graduate of Smith College. Early in her post-Smith career, she conducted and wrote the 1947, “A Study of the Negro in Military Service,” which contributed to President Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the armed forces. Sampson moved to Maine in the early 1950s with her husband, Richard Sampson, a Bates College mathematics professor, and she played a unique and critical role in the state until her death in 1996. Over the course of her life in Maine, she served as the founder of the first chapter of the NAACP in Maine, local and …
Torch (March 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (March 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
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Family Portraits: Past And Present Representations Of Parents In Special Education Text Books, Dianne L. Ferguson, Philip M. Ferguson, Joanne Kim, Corrine Li
Family Portraits: Past And Present Representations Of Parents In Special Education Text Books, Dianne L. Ferguson, Philip M. Ferguson, Joanne Kim, Corrine Li
Education Faculty Articles and Research
This paper analyses the descriptions of families of children with disabilities as contained in introductory special education texts over the last 50 years. These text books are typically used in pre-service teacher education courses as surveys of the education of ‘exceptional children’. The textbooks reflect the mainstream professional assumptions of the era about topics such as disability, special education, inclusion, and family/school linkages. However, they also shape the assumptions of the next generation of educators about these same topics. The paper summarises the results of a qualitative document analysis of a sample of these textbooks from two different eras. The …
Torch (January/February 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (January/February 2013), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.