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Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education: New Evidence on the Debate over Disproportionality
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Direct linkElder, Todd E.; Figlio, David; Imberman, Scott; Persico, Claudia – Education Next, 2021
About 70 percent of all Black students attend schools where more than half of students are non-white. By contrast, just 13 percent of white students attend predominately nonwhite schools. Such disparate enrollments mirror longstanding differences across racial groups in educational and economic outcomes, including Black-white gaps in educational…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Disability Identification, Special Education, Racial Factors
