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Report: On the Nexus of Race, Disability, and Overrepresentation: What do we know? Where do we go?

Report » On the Nexus of Race, Disability, and Overrepresentation: What do we know? Where do we go?

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EQUITY, disproportionality, TOPICAL BRIEF

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PRACTITIONER:group practice and professional learning

Authors

National Institute for Urban School Improvement, ; Equity Alliance at ASU

Published

2001, 8/5/2009

Publisher

National Institute for Urban School Improvement

Abstract

The ethnic overrepresentation of students in special education programs in this country has been a recognized problem for more than 30 years. Simply defined, overrepresentation, or the disproportionate placement of students of a given
ethnic group in special education programs, means that the percentage of students from that group in such programs is disproportionally greater than their percentage in the school population as a whole.1 Currently, African Americans tend to be significantly overrepresented in the two special education categories of mild mental disabilities and emotional/behavioral disabilities (Oswald, Coutinho, Best, and Singh, 1999). At the same time, African American learners are also underrepresented in gifted education programs nationally (Patton, 1998).

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