Racial inequity in special education
By: edited by Daniel J. Losen, Gary Orfield ; foreword by Senator James M. Jeffords.
Contributors: Losen, Daniel J.; Orfield, Gary.; Civil Rights Project (Harvard University)
Publisher: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University; Harvard Education Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Special education -- Social aspects -- United States; Discrimination in education -- United States; Minorities -- Education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Senator James M. Jeffords; title: Racial inequity in special education / Daniel J. Losen and Gary Orfield; title: Community and school predictors of overrepresentation of minority children in special education / Donald P. Oswald, Martha J. Coutinho, and Al M. Best; title: Racial disparities in the identification, funding, and provision of special education / Thomas Parrish; title: Double jeopardy : an exploration of restrictiveness and race in special education / Edward Garcia Fierros and James W. Conroy; title: Of rocks and soft places : using qualitative methods to investigate disproportionality / Beth Harry, Janette K. Klingner, Keith M. Sturges, and Robert F. Moore; title: Schools make a difference : the overrepresentation of African American youth in special education and the juvenile justice system / David Osher, Darren Woodruff, and Anthony E. Sims; title: English-language learner representation in special education in California urban school districts / Alfredo J. Artiles, Robert Rueda, Jesús José Salazar, and Ignacio Higareda; title: Disability, race, and high-stakes testing of students / Jay P. Heubert; title: Legal challenges to inappropriate and inadequate special education for minority children / Daniel J. Losen and Kevin G. Welner; title: Evaluating the Office for Civil Rights' Minority and Special Education Project / Theresa Glennon; title: IDEA and disproportionality : federal enforcement, effective advocacy, and strategies for change / Thomas Hehir; title: Ending segregation of Chicago's students with disabilities : implications of the Corey H. lawsuit / Sharon Weitzman Soltman and Donald R. Moore.