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Response to Intervention and Specific Learning Disability Identification: Evidence from Tennessee
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Allison F. Gilmour; Justin Harper; Blair Lloyd; Alyssa Van Camp – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Response to intervention (RTI) is a method for providing academic support to students and for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLDs). Using interrupted time series and hazard models, we examined if statewide RTI adoption in the U.S. state of Tennessee was associated with changes in rates of SLD and first-time SLD identification in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Intervention
The Predicaments of Addressing Equity without Attending to Race and Racism
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O'Neill, Michaela Krug – Educational Forum, 2022
This paper provides an analysis of one state's Response to Intervention (RTI) model, bringing to light two predicaments that plague efforts to address disproportionality and support learning: (1) That RTI may continue to perpetuate disproportionality, both in the model's tiers of support as well as in the placement of students in special…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Disproportionate Representation, Racial Bias, Students with Disabilities