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A Comparison of Eligibility Criteria and Their Impact on Minority Representation in LD Programs.

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Colarusso, Ronald P.; Keel, Marie C.; Dangel, Harry L. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2001

A review of 6,036 learning disabilities eligibility reports found the application of a regression equation to a standard score formula and the use of two different low-achievement cut-off criteria significantly increased the number of eligible white and African-American students, but neither alternative equalized the proportion of white to…

Descriptors: Black Youth, Blacks, Classification, Disability Identification

A Study of Special Education Referral and Placement Practices [in the] Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland).

Bowman, Jan E. – 1988

A study was conducted of special education referral and placement practices within Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools. A group of 650 low-achieving elementary school students, identified to be "at risk" for failure, was monitored to examine special education referrals or placements. Three hundred of the students were studied to…

Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Handicap Identification

Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002.

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Obiakor, Festus E., Ed.; Utley, Cheryl A., Ed. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002

This issue of "Multiple Voices" contains the following articles: (1) "A Self-Study of Diversity: Preservice Teachers' Beliefs Revealed through Classroom Practices" (Donna M. Sobel and others), which presents the results of seven preservice teachers' self-study that reveals ways in which the teachers' beliefs regarding diversity issues were…

Descriptors: American Indians, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Bilingual Education, Blacks