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Cultural Bias in Special Education Assessment and Placement.
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Rose, Ernest; Huefner, Dixie S. – 1984
Advocates for minority students charge that special education placement of racially or culturally different students is unfair because the tests, standardized on white, middle-class children, do not accurately reflect the learning rate or potential achievement level of others. For this reason, reliance on IQ tests for placement of minority…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Bias