ABSTRACT
In 1954 when the Warren Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that a separate education was an unequal education, Americans were introduced to the moral principle that no person should be left out of the mainstream of society’s opportunities because of race, poverty level, or disability. In the decades following Brown, four innovative social experiments were constructed to reflect the inclusion ideal. They included a busing experiment to desegregate the public schools, an affirmative action experiment to eliminate discrimination in employment, a welfare rights experiment to reduce the harm caused by poverty, and a special education experiment to include disabled children in the mainstream of public schooling.
