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Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race and disability in schools
- Author
- Harry, Beth, author.
- Title
- Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race and disability in schools / Beth Harry, Janette Klingner ; forewords by Lisa D. Delpit and Alfredo J. Artiles.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Published
- New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2014]
- Description
- xvii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
- Other contributors
- Klingner, Janette K., author.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Overview: Ethnic disproportionality in special education
- School structure: institutional bias and individual agency
- Cultural consonance, dissonance, and the nuances of racism
- In the classroom: opportunity to learn
- The construction of family identity: stereotypes and cultural capital
- At the conference table: the discourse of identity construction
- Bilingual issues and the referral process
- Constructing intellectual disability: cracks and redundancies
- Constructing learning disabilities: redundancies and discrepancies
- Constructing emotional/behavior disorders: from troubling to troubled behavior
- Into special education: exile or solution?
- Conclusion
- Epilogue. Research methods: Who are we and how did we do this research?
- Subject headings
- Special education--United States--Evaluation. Children with disabilities--Education--United States--Evaluation. Discrimination in education--United States. Minorities--Education--United States. Educational equalization--United States.
- ISBN
- 9780807755068 (pbk.) 0807755060 (pbk.) 9780807772928 (ebook)