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Culturally Different Students in Special Education: Looking Backward to Move Forward
Content type: Journal Article
As the “land of opportunity” and arguably the greatest country in the world, the United States continues to change—culturally, racially, and linguistically. Reports abound regarding the changing demographics of the country and its schools. Over a 2-decade...
The Minority Report: Disproportionate Representation in Australia's Largest Education System
Content type: Journal Article
The overrepresentation of students from minority ethnic groups in separate special education settings has been extensively documented in North America, yet little research exists for Australian school systems. The authors of this study systematically...
Disproportionality in Special Education: Effects of Individual and School Variables on Disability Risk
Content type: Journal Article
We examined the risk of disability identification associated with individual and school variables. The sample included 18,000 students in 39 schools of an urban K-12 school system. Descriptive analysis showed racial minority risk varied across 7 disability...
Are Black Children Disproportionately Overrepresented in Special Education? A Best-Evidence Synthesis
Content type: Journal Article
We synthesized empirical work to evaluate whether Black children are disproportionately overrepresented in special education. We identified 22 studies that met a priori inclusion criteria including use of at least 1 covariate in the reported analyses...
Are Hispanic, Asian, Native American, or Language-Minority Children Overrepresented in Special Education?
Content type: Journal Article
We conducted a best-evidence synthesis of 22 studies to examine whether systemic bias explained minority disproportionate overrepresentation in special education. Of the total regression model estimates, only 7/168 (4.2%), 14/208 (6.7%), 2/37 (5.4%), and 6...
Guidance for the Antiracist Educator: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies for Disability and Diversity
Content type: Journal Article
Racism in the United States has risen to the forefront of public awareness through the national outrage, grief, and terrible injustice and bias that continues to dictate the fates of individuals in our communities of color. Centuries of systemic racism...
Justifying and Explaining Disproportionality, 1968–2008: A Critique of Underlying Views of Culture
Content type: Journal Article
Special education has made considerable advances in research, policy, and practice in its short history. However, students from historically underserved groups continue to be disproportionately identified as requiring special education. Support for color...
Disproportionality in Special Education Identification and Placement of English Language Learners
Content type: Journal Article
This study explored the extent of disproportionality in the identification and placement of culturally and linguistically diverse students identified as English language learners in special education. Descriptive statistics and regression analyses examined...