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Tefera, Adai; Voulgarides, Catherine Kramarczuk – Teachers College Record, 2016
To understand the challenges associated with the enactment of educational policies that aim to improve equity and opportunity for students of color with disabilities, this chapter focuses on two separately conducted ethnographic studies. The first investigates district administrators' approaches to addressing racial disproportionality after the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Equal Education
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Kariyawasam, Rohan – Education and the Law, 2007
Recently, the government has issued legislation on disability discrimination (the UK "Disability Discrimination Act" 2005) that is silent on the issue of access to technology for those adults and minors with special needs/disabilities either in the classroom or out of the classroom. At the same time, commercial legislation from Europe…
Descriptors: Disability Discrimination, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Cumming, J. Joy; Dickson, Elizabeth A. – Education and the Law, 2007
Assessment equity concerns all educational authorities and practitioners. When educators consider issues of equity, their predominant concern is accommodation of students with special needs, cultural issues, and creating alternative assessment activities that have equivalence to standard activities, so as not to advantage or disadvantage any…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Social Justice