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Our Halloween Special: The Ghost of the Bell Curve with Rebecca Cruz
For Halloween, DiveIn brings you something truly frightening:
a statistical distribution.
Federico Waitoller talks to Rebecca Cruz, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and coauthor, with Allison Firestone, of the new book The Ghost of the Bell Curve: Ableism in American Education and an Agenda for Change.
The book asks us to confront an uncomfortable idea: some of the assumptions that have historically shaped intelligence testing, disability classification, sorting, and educational exclusion never really disappeared.
They are still haunting us.
Rebecca and…
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