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When Carter and Mondale lost the 1980 election to Reagan and Bush, Eleanor was far from the gloom in Washington. At the time she was a sophomore in St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.; a phys ed major who dreamed -- like so many girls her age -- of making it big in Hollywood. Unlike the other girls, however, her famous name helped take her there, and Eleanor Mondale made her TV debut in January 1981 on the ABC show "240-Robert." She played a bank teller, and spoke exactly six words: "Here's Miss Harper's file, Mr. Talmadge...
...Ed Chen...
...learning disabled. The share of public-school budgets devoted to "regular education"--which almost two-thirds of students receive--plummeted from 80% in 1967 to less than 59% in 1996, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From 1991 to 1996, regular ed accounted for just 23% of total spending on new school programs. Average students have become casualties of a spoils system in which every morsel of every school district's budget has a different interest group staking a claim to it. "If you don't have someone representing you, your needs...
...middle-class parents desperate to get help for their underachieving children, but the real problems are more subtle. The rising numbers of learning-disabled (or "special needs") students have altered classroom dynamics in ways that harm average kids' ability to learn. The old practice of sticking special-ed kids in separate classes for the duration of the school day has given way to the policy of "mainstreaming," or "inclusion": nearly half of all special-needs students--and many more than that in suburban districts--spend most of the day in regular classes with nondisabled students. Though schools often assign...
...average student loses out." In Buffalo, N.Y., seventh-grade teacher Rebecca Heim confronts similar frustrations. Eight of her 24 students last year had special needs. "They end up holding back the class because of the constant disruption to the classroom," Heim says. "That's a disservice to the regular-ed students...