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Natasha Strassfeld; North Cooc – Theory Into Practice, 2024
In this article, we examine and explore how the recent US Supreme Court case on affirmative action within higher education will shape and contextualize disproportionate minority representation and its monitoring within a K-12 public school context for students with disabilities. That is, as the litigation and ultimate judicial decision shape how…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Legislation, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
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Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides; Rebecca Cruz; Natasha Strassfeld; Alexandra Aylward; Roey Ahram; Allison Firestone – Theory Into Practice, 2024
We outline a multidimensional ecological systems policy framework to better understand how the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and patterns of racial disproportionality in special education relate. The framework engages with ideology, power, privilege, and context across the multiple layers of the policy-implementation process…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Ecology, Policy Analysis
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Mercédès A. Cannon; David I. Hernández-Saca – Theory Into Practice, 2024
Teachers' and practitioners' pedagogical practices also have legal professional responsibilities and regulations to adhere to under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. We understand the former as the policy master narrative that can reify inaccessibility in the classroom. We take a paradigmatic shift focusing on "storying"…
Descriptors: African American Students, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Females
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Vaughn, Margaret – Theory Into Practice, 2020
This culminating article synthesizes the collection of articles to discuss conceptualizations of student agency across contexts. Themes that exist across the collection of articles include agency as multidimensional, agency as a navigational tool, and agency as advocacy. In this concluding article, ideas from across the articles are presented to…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Advocacy, Classroom Techniques, Critical Theory