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Farkas, George; Morgan, Paul L.; Hillemeier, Marianne M.; Mitchell, Cynthia; Woods, Adrienne D. – Exceptional Children, 2020
To examine whether special education racial risk ratios reported by U.S. school districts are explained by district-level confounds, particularly, racial achievement gaps, we analyzed merged data (N = 1,952 districts for Black-White comparisons; N = 2,571 districts for Hispanic-White comparisons) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of…
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences
Wexler, Jade; Kearns, Devin M.; Lemons, Christopher J.; Mitchell, Marisa; Clancy, Erin; Davidson, Kimberly A.; Sinclair, Anne C.; Wei, Yan – Exceptional Children, 2018
This study reports practices implemented in over 2,000 minutes by 16 middle school special education and general education co-teaching pairs in English language arts classes. We report the extent to which teachers integrated literacy activities that support reading comprehension, the co-teaching models used, and the frequency with which each…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Team Teaching
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Flowers, Claudia; Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn – Exceptional Children, 2006
Recent guidelines for No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; 2001) permit the use of alternate achievement standards for counting up to 1% of students with significant cognitive disabilities as proficient in adequate yearly progress (AYP) calculations. This provision increases the importance of assessing the technical quality of alternate…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, State Standards, Academic Standards