Preserving the Right to Deny

by E Wayne Ross on July 16, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: Preserving the Right to Deny

Expanding protections for disabled students is fine with higher education officials, so long as accommodating those students doesn’t erode academic standards, according to testimony given to a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday. But, as the hearing revealed, some are concerned that “standards” could be defined to exclude the very students federal laws are designed to help.

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