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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Wedell, Klaus – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2003
This reprinted paper was originally published in 1981 and addresses issues of classification of children with disabilities in the United Kingdom. It considers several "within-child" and several interactive models in special education and concludes by encouraging the stating of children's special educational needs rather than classification and…
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Disabilities, Disability Identification
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Rains, Prudence M.; Kitsuse, John L.; Duster, Troy; Freidson, Eliot – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2003
This reprint of one chapter from the 1975 text, "Issues in the Classification of Children" by Nicholas Hobbs and others, addresses the theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues involved in the "labeling" approach to the sociology of deviance. It examines the social process of classification, the use of classification in social agencies,…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Disabilities, Disability Identification