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Systemic Approaches to Eliminating Disproportionality in Special Education 

Systemic Approaches to Eliminating Disproportionality in Special Education 
September 2016
Robin G. Jackson, Kathleen King Thorius, and Tiffany S. Kyser

Perhaps no other educational inequity today illustrates the complex relationship between discrimination and systemic oppression at the intersection of race, language, and ability more than the phenomenon of special education disproportionality. This brief defines and addresses the historical and contemporary contexts that have resulted in disproportionality. The authors also offer strategies in three domains of systemic change intended to address and redress disproportionality.

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