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Costa, Annela; Cramer, Elizabeth D. – Multiple Voices: Disability, Race, and Language Intersections in Special Education, 2022
The purpose of this nonexperimental, quantitative study was to explore the perceptions of educational decision-makers regarding the importance of factors that relate to educational decision-making for racially, ethnically, or linguistically minoritized students who may have disabilities. Further, the researchers explored the relationship between…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Psychologists, Counselor Attitudes, Decision Making
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DeMatthews, David E.; Knight, David S. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
State accountability systems have been a primary school reform initiative in the US for the past 20 years, but often produce unintended negative consequences. In 2004, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) implemented the Performance Based Monitoring and Analysis System (PBMAS), which included an accountability indicator focused on the percentage of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Accountability, Eligibility, Program Implementation
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Johnson, Luther; Larwin, Karen H. – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2020
This study aims to examine the representation of African American males in AP, honors, and gifted courses in secondary education. The current investigation represents a causal-comparative investigation of 2017-2020 school district data from a large metropolitan school district regarding the number of African American males selected for inclusion…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Advanced Placement Programs, African American Students
DuBois, Elizabeth Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Disproportionality in special education has been examined from various perspectives over a 50-year period. English Language Learner (ELL) students have been included in the discussion among researchers in the past two decades as a disproportionate number of ELL students are referred to special education. Though the problem of disproportionality…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, English Language Learners
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Springer, Matthew G.; Swain, Walker A.; Rodriguez, Luis A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
We report findings from a quasi-experimental evaluation of the recently implemented US$5,000 retention bonus program for effective teachers in Tennessee's Priority Schools. We estimate the impact of the program on teacher retention using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design by exploiting a discontinuity in the probability of treatment…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Teacher Persistence
Schoorman, Dilys; Zainuddin, Hanizah; Sena, Sister Rachel – Multicultural Education, 2011
Educational research undertaken for the public good incites educators who work in under-served communities not only to highlight the educational policies and practices that lead to the further marginalization of these communities, but also to imagine ways in which such hegemony can be countered. This article focuses on an emerging challenge found…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Equal Education, Educational Research, Learning Disabilities