Special Education and American Laws

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The paper describes how laws affecting education today have an extensive impact on both children's learning and on educators' methods of instruction. The paper examines how, historically, education was considered a luxury for the wealthy and did not include those of color, the poor, or those with disabilities. The writer explains that there was a societal contention that these individuals did not need to receive an education because there was no indication that they could ever further themselves.

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"Laws affecting education today have an extensive impact on both the learning of children and the way in which educators practice their methods of instruction. Previous to the modern age education was considered a luxury for the wealthy, and did not include those of color, the poor, or those with disabilities. It is clear that in previous periods of history, therefore, there was a societal contention that these individuals did not need to receive an education because there was no supposed indication that they could ever further themselves past the lives that they had been born into."

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