by David Hernández-Saca - 2019
This chapter concerns dis/ability, emotion, affect, and feelings and how persons with a single or multiple dis/abilities are dis/enfranchised through multiple, intersectional categories in which they are located and provided services in schools. The chapter highlights how dis/ability can function together with emotion and affect to either exclude or include people from social, economic, and educational life and outlines a critical pedagogy of student knowledge, emotion, feeling, affect, and being to assist teachers in critically emotionally examining themselves.
by Michael Gottfried, Leanna Stiefel, Amy Schwartz & Bryant Hopkins - 2019
This article examines whether students with disabilities (in traditional public schools) have different absence patterns based on being in classrooms with greater or fewer students without disabilities. Relying on longitudinal data from New York City’s public-school system, the findings indicate that students with disabilities have lower absences when in rooms with mostly students without disabilities, and this is particularly so for students with emotional disabilities.
by Michael Valenti, Elizabeth Brown, Christy Galletta Horner, Duhita Mahatmya & Jason Colditz - 2019
This study investigates how special education teachers’ emotional labor (i.e., their deliberate suppression or expression of emotions to achieve goals) explains variation in their working alliances with students. Participants were 61 teachers and 243 students. We tested a mediational, two-level path model including the two types of emotional display rules, two types of emotional acting, and three components of working alliance, and found partial support for this mediational relationship.
by Michael Gottfried & Cameron Sublett - 2019
This study examines whether older versus younger kindergarten entry age links to differences in academic achievement for children who start school with a disability.
by Maria Lewis - 2018
This article examines the implementation of a provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that relates to student discipline.
by Eleanor Craft & Aimee Howley - 2018
This qualitative interview study explores how nine African American students in secondary-level special education placements perceived their school experiences and the benefits, challenges, and detriments associated with their placements and accompanying disability labels.
by Rhonda Bondie & Akane Zusho - 2017
This qualitative case study examines the use of All Learners Learning Every Day instructional routines related to small group discussions and self-regulated learning with English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities in a high-stakes testing environment.
by North Cooc - 2017
Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, this study examines whether teachers disproportionally perceive minority students as having a disability even after accounting for student background, teacher traits, and school characteristics.
by Sharon Nichols & Felicia Castro-Villarreal - 2016
Introduction to the Yearbook on Accountability Practices and Special Education Services: Impact and Implications
by Peter Martin - 2016
This article presents a longitudinal study of an urban charter middle school to examine the impact testing pressures can have on the education of students with disabilities and English language learners, and how this may lead to a narrowing of the content they are taught.
by Felicia Castro-Villarreal & Sharon Nichols - 2016
This article provides a general overview of educational policy and practice as it relates to special education student populations.
by Adai Tefera & Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides - 2016
This article critically examines the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and No Child Left Behind. Authors demonstrate how and why these policies have failed to adequately ensure that students of color with disabilities receive the educational opportunities the policies were intended to provide.
by Jeanette Joyce, Judith Harrison & Danielle Murphy - 2016
The purpose of this article is to discuss student learning objectives as components of high-stakes teacher evaluation systems, within the context of learners with special needs.
by Jessica Bacon, Carrie Rood & Beth Ferri - 2016
This paper critically examines a resultant phenomenon of the Standards-Based Reform movement: the emergence of self-contained Prioritized Curriculum classes, designed to provide students with disabilities access to standards-based general education curriculum in segregated classes.
by Robert Cotto Jr. - 2016
Connecticut experienced two major changes in testing policy for children with disabilities that played a major role in conclusions about educational progress in the state. The responses to these changes in testing policy make Connecticut an illuminating case regarding the problem of high-stakes testing and changes in policies for students with disabilities in a state characterized by deep racial and economic inequity.
by George Theoharis, Julie Causton & Chelsea Tracy-Bronson - 2016
This article reports on a project to better understand how educators grapple with externally imposed pressures as they work to change the organizational structure of their schools to implement greater inclusion of their students served by special education.
by Brittany Aronson, Kristin Murphy & Andrew Saultz - 2016
This article draws from the lessons learned from the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that occurred from 2009–2011, with particular attention paid to the unintended consequences of high-stakes accountability practices, especially for students with disabilities.
by Srikala Naraian - 2016
To disrupt the stubborn linkage between place and disability, this paper takes up spatial theory to stimulate new understandings of inclusion. Drawing on teacher interview data from ethnographically-oriented studies conducted between 2005 and 2014 in U.S. public schools, it proposes an alternate conceptualization of student learning difference to enable new relations between teacher identity and place, making inclusion a spatially fluid project.
by Jason Ellis & Paul Axelrod - 2016
This article examines special education in one Canadian urban public school system, the Toronto system, from 1945 to the present. Prepared with a wide audience of historians and education researchers, policymakers, administrators, teachers, and others in mind, the article explains the many different change factors – as well as the significant continuity – that have been present in the historical development of special education policies.
by Srikala Naraian - 2014
This paper reviews data from multiple sites to disclose teachers’ practices at the confluence of multiple discourses that collectively construct inclusion in uncertain terms. It suggests that teacher agency for inclusion is situated within the contradictions of everyday schooling practice and offers a framing of inclusion that is grounded in such conditions.
by Laura Bray, Alicia Mrachko & Christopher Lemons - 2014
In this qualitative case study, we examined the writing opportunities provided to students in four eighth-grade English classrooms at a full inclusion middle school.
by Vonzell Agosto - 2014
This article provides an analysis of movies at the intersection of race, gender, and dis/ability with particular attention to how Black, dis/abled males are represented through master narratives about Black males that interpenetrate with dis/ability tropes. At the focus of this analysis are movies such as Unbreakable, Source Code, Avatar, and Hancock. The framework of critical race studies in education (CRSE), critical race theory in particular (CRT), with critical dis/ability studies (CDS) helps to flesh out how commonly recycled tropes are used to construct intersectional narrative threats about black males around the themes of dysfunction, marginalization, and miscegenation. These narratives are discussed through the added metaphors of space and race, and presence in absence. Implications for the education of Black males and special education are discussed and recommendations for educators and educational researchers are provided.
by Barbara Beatty - 2012
Introduction to the Special Issue
by Richard Valencia - 2012
A commentary on the Special Issue.
by Susan Baglieri, Lynne Bejoian, Alicia Broderick, David Connor & Jan Valle - 2011
This article introduces the special issue, Disability Studies in Education.
by Susan Baglieri, Lynne Bejoian, Alicia Broderick, David Connor & Jan Valle - 2011
Baglieri, Bejoian, Broderick, Connor, and Valle assert that imagining schools as places where children can find belonging and community conjures values and ideas with which few would argue, wherein democracy is posed as the political ideal of our culture. Within the context of this broad cultural and political discourse on schooling, the authors argue that the [re]claiming of inclusive education provides a heuristic concept and political agenda around which many strands of critical educational reform can cohere. At the center of this critique is the myth of the normal child—an idea of interest to scholars in the fields of disability studies in education, and disability studies more broadly, and an idea the authors seek to explore with critical scholars engaged in allied work seeking to contest, resist, and mitigate educational inequities. The authors contend that the commonality among a wide variety of ideologies of difference is rife with underexplored promise for allied work in inclusive education reform.
by Nirmala Erevelles - 2011
Erevelles draws simultaneously on the theoretical tools of both disability studies and queer theory, exploring ways in which both heterosexist and ableist ideologies operate (often overlapping and intersecting) as discourses of exclusion in schools. She argues that the regressive rhetoric of inclusion currently in vogue does little to critique how “Other” students, not just students with recognizable disabilities, are excluded by the normative discourses of schooling. Furthermore, Erevelles argues that for inclusive education to reclaim its transformative imperative, it would have to reimagine its original intent of (re)claiming disability by producing a refreshing new script that explores the radical possibilities of “coming out crip.”
by Shelley Zion & Wanda Blanchett - 2011
Zion and Blanchett assert that the inclusive education movement in America has never had the potential to be truly inclusive, given the movement’s lack of attention to the intersection of ability/disability with issues of race, class, and privilege. Examining the overrepresentation of students of color in special education (segregated placements, in particular) within the historical context of public schooling in America, the authors contend that social justice, critical race theory, and interest convergence are powerful tools with which to [re]conceptualize a truly inclusive education movement in America.
by Zeus Leonardo & Alicia Broderick - 2011
Leonardo and Broderick elect, as a scholar of whiteness studies and a scholar of disability studies, respectively, to construct a piece that aims to critique “smartness” as an ideological system, with very real and differential materialist impact on students’ lives by operating as cultural “property” in schools. They engage in this critique simultaneously and collaboratively from the perspectives of critical race theory and from a disability studies in education perspective, critically exploring and asserting throughout the theoretical limitations and shortfalls inherent in exploring the issue from either perspective alone.
by Roey Ahram, Edward Fergus & Pedro Noguera - 2011
Ahram, Fergus, and Noguera explore how the social construct of the “normal child” is racialized through the special education processes of referral and classification, and subsequently produces disproportional representation of minority students in special education. Their analysis suggests a convergence of two distinctly problematic processes: (1) the development of racialized assumptions of cultural deficit on the part of education professionals that result in erroneous conceptualizations of disability and (2) the subsequent labeling of students in special education through a pseudoscientific placement process.
