Standing out and Sorting In: Exploring the Role of Racial Composition in Racial Disparities in Special Education

Autor/in	Fish, Rachel Elizabeth
Titel	Standing out and Sorting In: Exploring the Role of Racial Composition in Racial Disparities in Special Education
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 56 (2019) 6, S.2573-2608 (36 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fish, Rachel Elizabeth) Weitere Informationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831219847966
Schlagwörter	Special Education; Racial Bias; Disproportionate Representation; White Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; American Indian Students; Students with Disabilities; Risk; Racial Composition; Social Status; Student Placement; Student Characteristics; Symptoms (Individual Disorders) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Disability; Disabilities; Behinderung; Risiko; Sozialer Status; Schülerpraktikum; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	Schools differentially sort students into special education by race, though researchers debate the extent to which this is caused by racist school practices versus variation in student need due to other racial inequalities. I test the interaction between school-level racial composition and student-level race as a predictor of special education receipt. I find that as the proportion of White students increases, the risk of lower-status disabilities, such as intellectual disability, increases for Black, Latinx, and Native American students. As the proportion of White students decreases, White students' risk of higher-status disabilities, such as speech/language impairment, increases relative to students of color. Thus, in the context of racial distinctiveness, student race becomes salient to sorting into special education. (As Provided).
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Update	2021/2/06