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ERIC Number: EJ262058
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982
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Mainstreaming: We Have Come Full Circle.
Ames, Louise Bates
Childhood Education, v58 n4 p238-40 Mar-Apr 1982
Argues against the current popular educational practice of mainstreaming which is based on the child's chronological age, and suggests a system called Developmental Placement in which, through the use of standardized tests, the developmental level of every school beginner is evaluated and used as a basis for grouping. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Mainstreaming
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Developmental Placement