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Inside Higher Ed

July 16, 2008

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.