ABSTRACT
Courtney B. Cazden, a noted authority on child language and education on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wanted to return to the classroom in order to reaquaint herself with the real world of elementary school teaching. The process by which a child became ‘educationally handicapped’ usually began in the classroom when a teacher referred a child by completing a referral form. The Committee decided to place Shane into an LD group, a pullout educational program in which students spend a part of the school day in the regular classroom and the other part of the day in a special program. State and federal law directed public schools to place students in certain educational programs, but provided only limited funds for this additional requirement. The enactment of routine bureaucratic practices structure students’ educational careers by opening or closing their access to particular educational opportunities.
