13. Conclusions and Recommendations. 2. Overview: Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education -- 3. School Structure: Institutional Bias and Individual Agency -- 4. Cultural Consonance, Dissonance, and the Nuances of Racism -- 5. In the Classroom: Opportunity to Learn -- 6. The Construction of Family Identity: Stereotypes and Cultural Capital -- 7. At the Conference Table: The Discourse of Identity Construction -- 8. Bilingual Issues and the Referral Process -- 9. Constructing Intellectual Disability: Cracks and Redundancies -- 10. Constructing Learning Disabilities: Redundancies and Discrepancies -- 11. Constructing Emotional/Behavior Disorders: From Troubling to Troubled Behavior -- 12. Into Special Education: Exile or Solution? -- 13. Conclusions and Recommendations.
Summary:
"Now in a third edition, this powerful book describes the school climates and social processes that place many children of color at risk of being assigned inappropriate disability labels. This edition provides an update on the patterns and literature related to disproportionality and includes revised recommendations for improving educational practice, teacher training, and policy renewal"-- Provided by publisher.
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