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A Structural Equation Model Using Fluency-Based Early Literacy Measures to Predict Emerging Reading Ability in Kindergarten
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Burke, Mack D.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Zou, Yuanyuan; Kwok, Oiman – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
The reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has initiated changes that are affecting early literacy assessment, and it has prompted the growing use of measures that incorporate phonological and alphabetic fluency. However, the question of how phonological and alphabetic fluency can inhibit (or promote) reading…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Disabilities, Reading Ability, Kindergarten
The Continuum of "Troubling" to "Troubled" Behavior: Exploratory Case Studies of African American Students in Programs for Emotional Disturbance
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Hart, Juliet E.; Cramer, Elizabeth D.; Harry, Beth; Klingner, Janette K.; Sturges, Keith M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
This article discusses the construction of the "emotional disturbance" (ED) category in the cases of four African American elementary students. These cases represent a sub-set of data from a three-year ethnographic study of the special education process in a large, culturally/linguistically diverse school district. Based on interviews,…
Descriptors: African American Students, Emotional Disturbances, Academic Achievement, Ethnography