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| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Interference (Language) | 1 |
| Learning Problems | 1 |
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| Nonstandard Dialects | 1 |
| Reading Diagnosis | 1 |
| Reading Difficulty | 1 |
| Special Education | 1 |
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Harber, Jean R. – 1978
The number of minority children who are placed in special education programs is disproportionate to the number of minority children in school. One factor causing this situation is that dialect interference causes lower reading scores among minority children. Since few standardized tests instruct the teacher to ignore errors attributable to…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, Interference (Language), Learning Problems
