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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...practice of teaching handicapped children in regular classrooms with nonhandicapped children to the fullest extent possible...and appropriate" education in the "least restrictive environment," has been widely interpreted as supporting the expansion...student population whose disabilities are compatible with a classroom setting and is felt in general to better prepare special...