Why are so many minority students in special education?
Subtitle: understanding race & disability in schools
By: Beth Harry and Janette Klingner ; foreword by Lisa D. Delpit
Contributors: Klingner, Janette K.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781423788072
Subjects: Special education; Evaluation; Children with disabilities; Education; Discrimination in education; Minorities; Educational equalization; EDUCATION; Special Education; Learning Disabilities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview:; title: Ethnic disproportionality in special education --; title: School structure: institutional bias and individual agency --; title: Cultural consonance, dissonance, and the nuances of racism --; title: In the classroom: opportunity to learn --; title: The construction of family identity: stereotypes and cultural capital --; title: At the conference table: the discourse of identity construction --; title: Bilingual issues and the referral process --; title: Constructing educable mental retardation: cracks and redundancies --; title: Constructing learning disabilities: redundancies and discrepancies --; title: Constructing behavior disorders: from troubling to troubled behavior --; title: Into special education: exile or solution?