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ERIC Number: EJ123582
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Mental Retardation: Past, Present and Future
Crissey, Marie Skodak
American Psychologist, 30, 8, 800-808, Aug 75
Notes that two developments had major impacts on policies towards the mentally retarded between the 1880s and the 1920s: (1) the swing toward the eugenics-heredity-genetics movement, and (2) the development of individual intelligence testing. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Educational Policy, Institutional Administration, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Psychological Studies, Public Policy, Special Education
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