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Ethnoracial Diversity of the Special Educator Workforce over Time
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Elizabeth Bettini; Tuan D. Nguyen; Tammy Ellis-Robinson; Loretta Mason-Williams; Alex Allen-Barrett; Ayana Bass – Exceptional Children, 2025
Teachers of color are critical for improving students' educational experiences and outcomes, especially for students of color. Yet, more than 80% of special education teachers (SETs) in U.S. public schools are white. Thus, we examined how the ethnoracial diversity of the SET workforce changed over time, from 2012-2021, in relation to the…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty), Public Schools
"Halfway into the Pool": LGBTQ+ Educators' Liminality within Silenced Academia
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Alexandra Parsons; Laura Flores Shaw – Educational Forum, 2025
Amidst political and educational challenges, LGBTQ+ educators in the Southern United States often conceal their identities. Through the lens of ecological systems theory, we propose that inconsistent pedagogical paradigms create a sense of liminality for these LGBTQ+ stakeholders. This study of four school personnel highlights the silencing of…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Teacher Characteristics, Social Bias, Educational Environment
"The World Isn't Black and White": Adolescent Youth of Color Reflect on School Ethnic-Racial Climate, Context, and Identity in Middle School
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Tina M. Durand; Ronnie Blackwell – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Contemporary scholars of race contend that the long-heralded "American Dream" rhetoric continues to thrive within the ideology of colorblindness, whereby race is deemed insignificant. Public schools are not insulated from this, and recent political assaults the teaching of "divisive" concepts have already had a chilling effect…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Minority Group Students, Public Schools, Ethnic Diversity
"They're Like Slash": Multimodality and Embodied Agency in Students' Critical Engagements with Texts
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María José Aragón; Meghan Corella; Nora W. Lang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Despite recent calls to more fully incorporate multimodal perspectives into literacies research, there is still limited scholarship examining how students critically engage in reading activities by drawing on embodied practices. Racially and linguistically minoritized students are particularly disadvantaged by dominant logocentric and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Activities, Public Schools
Disposable Spaces: How Special Education Enrollment Affects School Closures
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Rachel N. Weber; Federico R. Waitoller; Joshua M. Drucker – Urban Education, 2025
Informed by austerity politics, struggling school districts have closed buildings to pursue cost savings. We investigate the factors affecting which schools are shuttered, proposing that the share of students with an Individualized Education Program (SIEP) influences the way building utilization is measured because of the different instructional…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Elementary Schools, School Closing
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School
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Shawn R. Coon – Urban Education, 2025
Many urban public schools are often perceived as inclusive due to the demographics of their diverse student populations. This myth of inclusivity reifies notions of equity in both education and broader society. However, upon closer inspection, this myth of inclusion crumbles once immersed within an urban high school. In this article, I present the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Racial Segregation, Inclusion, Public Schools