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Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate

This article reviews historically the overrepresentation of Latino and African-American students in special education; examines the influence of court cases, debate about systemic issues, demographic and socioeconomic changes, the construction of minority students' school failure, and the fallacy of the cultural diversity-disability analogy; and offers solutions.

• Author/Creator: Artiles, A., Trent, S. C.
• Date Published: Winter
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal of Special Education
• Number: 4
• Volume: 27
• Year: 1994

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Disabilities
• Subject: Educational History
• Subject: Incidence
• Subject: Minority Group Children
• Subject: Student Placement

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