This manuscript presents findings from a study of the contributing factors and details of special education due process hearings in the United States that involved students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The study examined 101 due process hearings conducted over a three-year period in a five-state sample: California, Illinois,…

Measures of student disadvantage--or risk--are critical components of equity-focused education policies. However, the risk measures used in contemporary policies have significant limitations, and despite continued advances in data infrastructure and analytic capacity, there has been little innovation in these measures for decades. We develop a new…

These guidelines serve as a model for meeting the educational needs of students with language, speech, and hearing disorders. The guidelines clarify the paperwork requirements of federal and state statutes; reduce paperwork procedures to increase instructional time to students; recommend service delivery models; provide criteria to assist in…

This report summarizes activities of a three-year project whose major goals were as follows: (1) Developing an individualized modular program for inservice professional preparation of physical educators and other professionals in the motor performance assessment of handicapped students whose primary language is English, Spanish, or Vietnamese; (2)…

The ways in which the needs of special populations--students in poverty, English learners, and particularly special education students--have been addressed in studies measuring educational adequacy vary widely. This paper analyzes how these populations have been treated across various adequacy studies, with its major focus on special education…