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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...
Meeting the Linguistic Needs of High-Potential English Language Learners
Content type: Journal Article
The population of English language learners (ELLs) in regular classrooms has been increasing over the last few decades. However, ELLs are still underrepresented in gifted programs and teachers struggle to provide these students with adequate educational...
Adapting Evidence-Based Practices to Meet the Needs of English Learners With Mathematics Difficulties
Content type: Journal Article
A new line of experimental research is beginning to shed light on the beneficial impact of systematic and explicit mathematics instruction on the mathematics achievement of English learners (ELs) with mathematics difficulties (Orosco, 2014; Orosco, Swanson...
Contextualizing Instruction for English Language Learners With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
With the increase in the number of English language learners in today’s classrooms, teachers are faced with the task of delivering evidence-based instructional strategies to very diverse groups in their classrooms. The challenges of teaching children with...
Building BRIDGES
Content type: Journal Article
We tested the effects of teaching reading skills through U.S. history content for 38 eighth-grade poor readers whose reading ability ranged from second- to fourth-grade levels. Half of the students received special education services, and half of the...
The Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for English Learners
Content type: Journal Article
This article reviews published experimental studies from 2000 to 2012 that evaluated the effects of providing reading interventions to English learners who were at risk for experiencing academic difficulties, including students with learning disabilities...
English Learner and Non-English Learner Students With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
This study investigated the effects of Promoting Adolescent Comprehension Through Text (PACT), a content knowledge and comprehension treatment for English learner and non–English learner students with disabilities who were provided instruction in general...
Using an Ever–English Learner Framework to Examine Disproportionality in Special Education
Content type: Journal Article
Whereas most existing research has examined the prevalence of current English learners (ELs) in special education, we propose and test the use of the ever-EL framework, which holds the subgroup of EL students stable by following all students who enter...
A 16-Year Review of Participant Diversity in Intervention Research Across a Selection of 12 Special Education Journals
Content type: Journal Article
Given the continued changes in demographic diversity of students in the United States, it is important to ensure that participants included in special education research reflect the diversity of the classroom. We examined 16 years of intervention research...
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...