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Gibson, Lenwood – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2022
The disproportionate, over-representation of Black boys in special education continues to be a matter of social injustice and inequity in education. Many Black students are placed in special education due to subjective identification processes. This is especially true when it comes to classifications such as Emotional Behavior Disorders (EBD).…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, African American Students, Special Education, Social Justice
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Bowman-Perrott, Lisa; Lewis, Chance W. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2008
The achievement gap between African American students and their Caucasian peers has been of concern for quite some time in the field of education (Orfield, Losen, Wald, & Swanson, 2004). As a result, this article examined high stakes reading test scores for 4,135 African American students in grades 3 through 10 in a Midwestern school district.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Data Analysis, Student Records, African American Students