At the end of the twentieth century, the education of the disabled was a heavily funded ($4.9 billion in 2000) national program, primarily concerned with the recognition of educational disabilities in a broad population of students and with individual programming to remediate or compensate for the impact of those disabilities. In contrast to over two hundred years of segregated programming provided largely for social management purposes, its ultimate goal was to enable the productive inclusion of disabled students in American society.
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: From DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, by Michael J. Eig, Gale Group, © 2002, Gale Group
Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group.
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