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Mainstreaming as Nightmare. Since the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, it has been federal policy that all handicapped children, insofar as possible, be "mainstreamed," i.e., educated in the same class with everyone else. The law is theoretically useful and just, as a means of avoiding unwarranted discrimination. But in practice it often puts an overwhelming strain on the teacher. "Mainstreaming is ludicrous," says Detroit Counselor Jeanne Latcham. "We have children whose needs are complicated: a child in the third grade who has already been in 16 schools, children who need love and attention and disrupt the classroom...
...scholar first and foremost, and she seemed to have the right qualities insofar as she had dealt with students and can empathize with them," she added...
Other questions about the raid and the answers insofar as they were known last week...
...salaries and scholarships, libraries and laboratories are only the means to greater ends, and we will care about these needs only insofar as we care about the larger goals that Harvard is seeking to achieve. It is our goals, therefore, that form the subject of this report...
...presented the philosophical rationale for such allocation of Harvard's resources. In ordering the priorities of the University, first place goes to research. Second goes to the professional schools. Liberal arts training brings up the rear, and Bok presents it as the handmaiden of the professions, serving society insofar as it enables specialized technicians to obtain sufficient breadth of knowledge to do their job well...