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Peer reviewedMcCarthy, Martha M. – Harvard Educational Review, 1983
The author considers the legality of minimum competency testing diploma requirements applied to the handicapped in light of (1) their constitutional and statutory rights to nondiscriminatory treatment, (2) their statutory right to an appropriate education, and (3) their constitutional right to substantive and procedural due process. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
Lynch, Eleanor W.; Lewis, Rena B. – Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1982
Some of the critical factors that have prevented equitable treatment of the minority student with learning disabilities are considered. Attention is directed to definitional issues, discriminatory practices in special education, issues in identification and assessment, treatment considerations, and difficulties inherent in the differentiation of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cultural Differences, Diagnostic Teaching, Disability Discrimination
