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Is Educational Policy Alleviating or Perpetuating the Racialization of Disabilities? An Examination of "Big-P" and "Little-p" Policies
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Tefera, Adai; Voulgarides, Catherine Kramarczuk – Teachers College Record, 2016
To understand the challenges associated with the enactment of educational policies that aim to improve equity and opportunity for students of color with disabilities, this chapter focuses on two separately conducted ethnographic studies. The first investigates district administrators' approaches to addressing racial disproportionality after the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Equal Education
Educational Accountability Tests, Social and Legal Inclusion Approaches to Discrimination for Students with Disability: A National Case Study from Australia
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Cumming, J. Joy; Dickson, Elizabeth – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2013
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability promotes equal and full participation by children in education. Equity of educational access for all students, including students with disability, free from discrimination, is the first-stated national goal of Australian education. Australian federal disability discrimination law, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
Targeting Subgroups.
Schwartzbeck, Terri Duggan – School Administrator, 2003
By requiring limited-English-proficient students and students with disabilities to meet the same targets at the same times as all other students, the NCLB imposes a one-size-fits-all approach that ignores the individual child. Challenges school leaders to take care not to blame the students and still hold themselves accountable for continual…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education