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Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race & disability in schools
- Title
- Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race & disability in schools / Beth Harry and Janette Klingner ; foreword by Lisa D. Delpit.
- Author
- Harry, Beth.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Teachers College Press, c2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Klingner, Janette K.
- Description
- xv, 207 p.; 24cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.
- Contents
- 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 educable mental retardation: cracks and redundancies -- Constructing learning disabilities: redundancies and discrepancies -- Constructing behavior disorders: from troubling to troubled behavior -- Into special education: exile or solution?
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-243
- ISBN
- 0807746258 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080774624X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005048575
- OCLC
- 60589156
- Author
- Harry, Beth.
- Title
- Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race & disability in schools / Beth Harry and Janette Klingner ; foreword by Lisa D. Delpit.
- Imprint
- New York ; London : Teachers College Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.
- Added Author
- Klingner, Janette K.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-243