Special education eligibility determinations are decision making processes that involve multiple stakeholders who bring a variety of power, privilege, and influence that impacts the overall decision and trajectory of the evaluation team. Eligibility for special education is a prescriptive process outlined by federal and state regulations that…

Using critical theory of technology and intersectionality, this study uses a mixed methods approach to investigate how power dynamics are embedded within the scholarship application of a two-year college in the United State. It also researches what might happen if the scholarship determination process was completed by machine learning and how that…

When either privileged or under-resourced families navigate gray areas in the law, including federal laws related to students with disabilities such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, inequities are revealed. Research and emerging trends have raised increasing concerns about unfairness and abuses of disability policies, particularly with…