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Download full textMercer, Jane R. – 1972
In a recent study, the mothers of 268 children who were in classes for educable mentally retarded in two public school districts in Southern California were interviewed. The responses of some of these mothers dramatize three issues: (1) biases in the assessment procedures used to label children as mentally retarded; (2) the stigmatization…
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Diagnosis, Individualized Instruction, Intelligence Tests
