The Right to the Same School Opportunities

"We were asking teachers to do some things they had not done before, to interact and support and teach kids that they didn't have a lot of experience doing in the past." An educator and a parent discuss the beginnings of integration of students with disabilities into the public schools in the 1970s,…

Title

The Right to the Same School Opportunities

Subject

Education
Legislation

Description

"We were asking teachers to do some things they had not done before, to interact and support and teach kids that they didn't have a lot of experience doing in the past." An educator and a parent discuss the beginnings of integration of students with disabilities into the public schools in the 1970s, and the impact of the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act. A compilation of excerpts from interviews with Pat Barber and Dixie Patterson.

Creator

Indiana Disability History Project

Date

2017-08-05

Contributor

Pat Barber - Interviewee
Dixie Patterson - Interviewee
Jennie Todd - Interviewer
Peggy Holtz - Videographer/editor

Rights

Copyright © 2017 The Trustees of Indiana University

Format

video/mp4

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

079-mi

Access Rights

Open to all users

Bibliographic Citation

"The Right to the Same School Opportunities" YouTube video, 00:08:05, interview compilation 079-mi by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on August 3, 2017, https://youtu.be/3qBDJ7fhGJE.

Spatial Coverage

Indiana
Indiana, Monroe County, Bloomington

Temporal Coverage

1970s

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