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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.
• Predictors of high school graduation or dropping out for youths with severe disturbances
  A study investigated the predictors of high school graduation or dropping out for youths with severe emotional disturbances (SED). Participants were 664 18- to 27-year-old youths who had a primary disability label of SED and left school prior to 1990.