Column: Schools misusing special ed for remedial education
September 15th, 2009University of Arkansas professor of education reform Jay P. Greene writes in the National Review that current procedures for identifying students with disabilities are fundamentally flawed and almost certainly result in inflated estimates of the number of students who are actually disabled.
Greene says disability rates vary dramatically from state to state, indicating that some districts are wrongly filling special education classes with students who need remedial education. The practice, he says, unnecessarily stigmatizes struggling students at the same time that it prevents schools from identifying and resolving their own problems.
Greene calls for a new method for identifying students that would avoid conflict of interest by remaining independent of school districts.
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