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Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race and disability in schools
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- Creator
- Beth Harry, Janette Klingner ; forewords by Lisa D. Delpit and Alfredo J. Artiles
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- Language
- English
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- Second edition
- New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2014]
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- xvii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807755060, 9780807772928, 9780807755068, 0807772925
- OCLC
- ocn869365254, ocn897466268
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Overview: Ethnic disproportionality in special education -- School structure: institutional bias and individual agency -- Cultural consonance, dissonance, and the nuances of racism -- In the classroom: opportunity to learn -- The construction of family identity: stereotypes and cultural capital -- At the conference table: the discourse of identity construction -- Bilingual issues and the referral process -- Constructing intellectual disability: cracks and redundancies -- Constructing learning disabilities: redundancies and discrepancies -- Constructing emotional/behavior disorders: from troubling to troubled behavior -- Into special education: exile or solution? -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. Research methods: Who are we and how did we do this research?