Published: 9/1/2011
In a study published in Educational Researcher, author Wanda J. Blanchett argues that race matters when it comes to referring African-American students to special education classes. In the four-page report, Blanchett contends that educational resource allocation, inappropriate curriculum and instructional strategies, and inadequate teacher preparation have only widened the gap between white and Black students. ?Although the field of special education was formed on the heels of the Brown decision and applied rhetoric and tactics from the civil rights movement, the disproportionate referral and placement of African-American students in special education has become a discursive tool for exercising white privilege and racism,? Blanchett writes. Eight families of Black students from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, have now taken that sentiment to the court room. The families of the students claimed in a civil suit dating back to 2007 that the Lower Merion School District disproportionately placed Black students in special education and low-level classes.
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