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Justifying and Explaining Disproportionality, 1968-2008: A Critique of Underlying Views of Culture
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Artiles, Alfredo J.; Kozleski, Elizabeth B.; Trent, Stanley C.; Osher, David; Ortiz, Alba – Exceptional Children, 2010
Special education has made considerable advances in research, policy, and practice in its short history. However, students from historically underserved groups continue to be disproportionately identified as requiring special education. Support for color-blind practices and policies can justify racial disproportionality in special education and…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Special Education, Minority Group Children, Educational Policy
Building a Knowledge Base on Culturally Diverse Students with Learning Disabilities: The Need To Enrich Research with a Sociocultural Perspective.
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Artiles, Alfredo J.; Trent, Stanley C. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
Introduces the focus of articles that follow in the special issue, the education of minority or culturally diverse students with learning disabilities. Discusses the importance of examining the role of sociocultural variables in research on learning disabilities and what practitioners can do to incorporate sociocultural perspectives. Summaries of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
Social Skills Training Research with Minority Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Olmeda, Rosa E.; Trent, Stanley C. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
A review of 13 studies on social skills training (SST) and learning disabilities found none of the studies included ethnic minority participants exclusively, there were no significant differences in types of SST programs used in studies with and without ethnic minorities, and findings were not reported by ethnicity. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Instructional Effectiveness
Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate.
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Artiles, Alfredo J.; Trent, Stanley C. – Journal of Special Education, 1994
This article reviews historically the overrepresentation of Latino and African-American students in special education; examines the influence of court cases, debate about systemic issues, demographic and socioeconomic changes, the construction of minority students' school failure, and the fallacy of the cultural diversity-disability analogy; and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Cultural Differences, Disabilities
School Choice for African-American Children Who Live in Poverty: A Commitment to Equity or More of the Same?
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Trent, Stanley C. – Urban Education, 1992
Argues against the Bush administration's school choice proposal from historical and sociocultural perspectives. The Bush approach to education reform espouses educational excellence without addressing needs of children who are at risk of school failure. Equity for minority groups has never occurred as a by-product of a focus on excellence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Decision Making, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Social Skills Training Research with Minority Students with Learning Disabilities
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Olmeda, Rosa E.; Trent, Stanley C. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
Sociocultural contexts influence social behaviors in ways that may not always be reflective of majority-culture norms. They also may vary the impact social skills training (SST) programs have on minority students with learning disabilities. To better understand culturally sensitive and effective SST for students with learning disabilities, it is…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Learning Disabilities, Minority Groups, Skill Development