Table of Contents: Why are so many minority students in special education?

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Why are so many minority students in special education? understanding race & disability in schools /

Main Author:	Harry, Beth.
Other Authors:	Klingner, Janette K.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : Teachers College Press, [2006]
Physical Description:	xv, 207 pages ; 24cm.
Subjects:	Special education -- United States -- Evaluation. Children with disabilities -- Education -- United States -- Evaluation. Discrimination in education -- United States. Minorities -- Education -- United States. Educational equalization -- United States.

Table of 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
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?