From Backwardness to At-Risk : Childhood Learning Difficulties and the Contradictions of School Reform.

Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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