Placing children in special education : a strategy for equity / Panel on Selection and Placement of Students in Programs for the Mentally Retarded, Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council ; Kirby A. Heller, Wayne H. Holtzman, and Samuel Messick, editors.

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Report of the Panel -- Introduction: Disproportion in special education -- Placement in special education: historical developments and current procedures -- Assessment: issues and methods -- Effective instruction for mildly mentally retarded children -- New approaches to assessment and instruction -- Background papers -- Biological and social factors contributing to mild mental retardation / Jack P. Shonkoff -- Classifying mentally retarded students: a review of placement practices in special education / William E. Bickel -- Testing in educational placement: issues and evidence / Jeffrey R. Travers -- Effects of special education placement on educable mentally retarded children / Kirby A. Heller -- Some potential incentives of special education funding practices / Suzanne S. Magnetti -- Patterns in special education placement as revealed by the OCR surveys / Jeremy D. Finn.

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