Report: On the Nexus of Race, Disability, and Overrepresentation: What do we know? Where do we go?
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EQUITY, disproportionality, TOPICAL BRIEF Areas
PRACTITIONER:group practice and professional learning Authors
National Institute for Urban School Improvement, ; Equity Alliance at ASU Published
2001 Publisher
National Institute for Urban School Improvement AbstractThe ethnic overrepresentation of students in special education programs in this country has been a recognized problem for more than 30 years. Simply defined, overrepresentation, or the disproportionate placement of students of a given
ethnic group in special education programs, means that the percentage of students from that group in such programs is disproportionally greater than their percentage in the school population as a whole.1 Currently, African Americans tend to be significantly overrepresented in the two special education categories of mild mental disabilities and emotional/behavioral disabilities (Oswald, Coutinho, Best, and Singh, 1999). At the same time, African American learners are also underrepresented in gifted education programs nationally (Patton, 1998).
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