Disproportionate Poverty, Conservatism, and the Disproportionate Identification of Minority Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Wiley, Andrew L.; Brigham, Frederick J.; Kauffman, James M.; Bogan, Jane E.
Titel	Disproportionate Poverty, Conservatism, and the Disproportionate Identification of Minority Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Quelle	In: Education and Treatment of Children, 36 (2013) 4, S.29-50 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-8491
Schlagwörter	Disproportionate Representation; Ethnic Groups; Special Education; Poverty; African American Students; Hispanic American Students; Correlation; Emotional Disturbances; At Risk Students; Statistical Analysis; White Students; Behavior Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnie; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Armut; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Korrelation; Gefühlsstörung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Previous investigations of disproportionate representation of students from certain ethnic groups in special education have suggested that disproportionality is the result of bias against the members of overrepresented groups or, conversely, the result of disproportionate exposure to poverty for these students. Strong evidence in favor of either position has failed to emerge over the past decades, leading us to conclude that the models underlying these examinations might be inadequate. We, therefore, examined disproportionality in ED at the national level (50 states and DC) for two ethnic groups, African-American and Hispanic students. Using a more complex model, we found that disproportionate poverty was positively associated with representation of these two groups in ED classification. The representation of African-Americans in the ED category was negatively correlated with levels of conservatism for a state while poverty more strongly affected individuals from Hispanic backgrounds. We suggest that the general underidentification of individuals from all ethnic groups may be the larger problem. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01