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Handicapping the Handicapped: Decision Making in Students' Educational Careers.
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The first comprehensive theoretical and empirical study of Mexican fertility in the United States was published by MASSEY et al. as discussed by the authors, who presented a review of the theoretical and research literature.Abstract:
\"Professors Bean and Swicegood have written a most impressive book. It is the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical study of Mexican fertility in the United States. Its review of the theoretical and research literature is superb, and its analyses illuminating. It will be a benchmark study for years to come.\" -DOUGLAS S. MASSEY, Chair Graduate Group in Demographye Associate Professor of Sociology, 5 University of Pennsylvaniaread more
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Identity as an analytic lens for research in education
TL;DR: In this article, a focus on the contextually specific ways in which people act out and recognize identities allows a more dynamic approach than the sometimes overly general and static trio of "race, class, and gender".
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Achieving Equity in Special Education: History, Status, and Current Challenges:
Russell J. Skiba,Ada B. Simmons,Shana Ritter,Ashley C. Gibb,M. Karega Rausch,Jason Cuadrado,Choong-Geun Chung +6 more
TL;DR: The authors provides a report on the history, measurement, status, and factors contributing to disproportionate representation in special education, and offers recommendations based on an understanding of racial and ethnic disparities as a multiply determined phenomenon.
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Culture as Disability.
Ray McDermott,Hervé Varenne +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that disability refers most precisely to inadequate performances only on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life, and that disability is less the property of persons than they are moments in a cultural focus.
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The Social construction of literacy
TL;DR: In this article, Cook-Gumperz examines the historical background which came to equate universal literacy with the resolution of society's ills, and questions why, when this objective has been so nearly realised in Western society, some people are clearly considered more 'literate' than others.
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Collaboration with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families: Ideal versus Reality
TL;DR: In this paper, a review identifies research-based definitions of ideal collaborative relationships between special education professionals and culturally and linguistically diverse families of children with disabilities, examines research on actual collaboration with such families, and makes recommendations regarding improvement of such collaboration.