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Keeping Education In Proportion By Anthony Rebora

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Keeping Education in Proportion is 5 pager article published by Education Week Octoboer 13, 2011. The author Anthony Rebora with the help other experts explains what needs to be done to keep minorities from being label and placed in special education. Accordingly to Rebora, the schools are struggling in effectively teach struggling minority students which is known as “disproportionally” and it refers to the disproportionate statistical representation of African- American and Hispanic students in special education. As stated in the federal data from 2007, African- American students made up 17 percent of the U.S. school enrollment, however more than 20 percent of the students are labeled with specific learning disabilities. Now, the Hispanic students are not so far behind, they represent about 20 percent of the school population and almost 24 percent is classified with learning disabilities. Not to mention that it can be far worse in many individual districts. …show more content…

Richer Milner IV, Author of Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classroom, believes that there are students placed in this program for two reasons: Teachers don’t want to deal with them or don’t know how to be responsive to them. Therefore, special education should not be blame for the disproportion or to be seen as a program to discriminate students because of their

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