Special Education
New Evidence From the National Survey of Children’s Health
Research shows that racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students when you take other student characteristics into account.
Rather than expending effort to fight school choice, we need to focus on fighting for policies that will make choice work well for students with special needs.
Everybody is scared to touch special education, much less fundamentally alter it.
Are U.S. schools over-identifying children for special ed based on their race or ethnicity? The best-available studies find that the opposite is occurring.
