Disproportionality

Numerous prior studies have asked how students of color fare when matched with a teacher who shares their racial or ethnic background. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about how this plays out...

Students with disabilities are overrepresented within the population of students suspended or expelled from school. When a student with a disability faces an expulsion or suspension equaling more than...

The early concepts of giftedness are rooted in racism through a very narrowly defined vision of intelligence focusing on White affluent men of European descent (DuBois & Greene, 2021). Minoritized...

Twice exceptional (2e) students are often discussed broadly but frequently underidentified in U.S. schools. These students have "superior intellectual ability [and] exhibit a significant discrepancy...

“Twice-exceptional” is a term used to signify students who have the exceptionalities of both giftedness and a disability (Foley-Nicpon et al., 2013). It is estimated that between 2% and 7% of the...

We used longitudinal staffing data from Pennsylvania to explore differences in special education personnel attrition across personnel categories, individual characteristics, and district...

This essay provides a two-pronged critical assessment of a subset of the literature on racial disproportionality in special education: that which aims to estimate racial disparities among otherwise...

The resegregation (i.e., overrepresentation) of Black and Latinx students in special education is a longstanding concern of scholars, researchers, and policy makers in the United States. Therefore, we...

Racial disproportionality in special education and school discipline remains a persistent social justice issue in the U.S. education system. Drawing from a 4-year-long school-community-university...

In the U.S. education system, students of color experience multiple forms of marginalization at the intersection of markers of difference. These injustices manifest in multiple forms, such as higher...