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Direct linkRichelle James – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Exclusionary discipline is a practice that is used nationwide. Historically, students within Special Education receive exclusionary discipline at a higher rate than their nondisabled peers even though they have the legal protections of a Manifestation Determination meeting. IEP stakeholders, including school psychologists, administrators and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Meetings, Disproportionate Representation, Special Education
Goff, Chauncey Demond – ProQuest LLC, 2010
For over four decades, America's educational system has overrepresented Black students in its special education programs. To little avail, and no avail if discussing a decrease in the disproportionate rates America identifies and refers the Black student for special education services, many authors have addressed the overrepresentation phenomenon.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Self Determination
Peer reviewedFerri, Beth A.; Connor, David J. – Gender and Education, 2010
Recent criticism of the over-representation of minority students in special education do not adequately account for gender, despite the fact that urban special education classrooms in the USA are largely populated by young men of colour. In fact, we know very little about how being female shapes the experiences and understandings of young women of…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Groups, Special Education, Working Class
Fiedler, Craig R.; Chiang, Bert; Van Haren, Barbara; Jorgensen, Jack; Halberg, Sara; Boreson, Lynn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
The overrepresentation of students with racial, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity (RCELD) in special education has been well documented for over 30 years. This phenomenon is known as "disproportionality." In an effort to address the disproportionate issue, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction funded a collaborative…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Change, Special Education
Greene, Jay P. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
The current system of educating disabled students provides financial incentives to schools to overidentify students as disabled and underserve those that are identified. The incentive to overidentify is caused by providing schools with additional funds as more students are placed in special education categories that are ambiguous to diagnose and…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Incentives, Disproportionate Representation, Disabilities
Download full textArizona Department of Education, 2009
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 established a requirement that all States develop and submit to the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) a performance plan designed to advance the State from its current level of compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements of the law…
Descriptors: Student Rights, Sanctions, Disabilities, Special Education
