NIUSI

part of the Education Reform Networks

Commitment

• Overrepresentation of bilingual and poor children in special education classes: A continuing problem.
  The authors investigated factors affecting the overrepresentation of poor and bilingual children in special education classes. They discussed the lack of educator knowledge in language learning and association of bilingualism with disability, poor educational policy in assessing of bilingual children and influence of bilingualism on special education classroom.
• Preventing disproportionate representation: Culturally and linguistically responsive prereferral interventions
  This paper is one of the short practitioner-oriented pamphlets produced by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt). This practitioner brief deals with culturally and linguistically responsive prereferral interventions for preventing disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in special education.
• Journal of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, 1999-2000
  This document consists of the two issues making up volume 2 of "The Journal of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association." The articles attempt to meet the interests and needs of those in various counseling fields such as counselor education, mental health, career, rehabilitation, and community or school counseling.
• Developing a Commitment to Multicultural Education // Teachers College Record,102(6), pp.980-1005 Dec 2000
  The author investigated the kinds of lived experiences contributing to teachers' commitment to multicultural education and processes by which teachers became committed. Interviews and surveys involving K-12 and college teachers indicated that teachers developed commitment through various developmental life experiences.
• Addressing Homelessness in Urban Schools
  This paper is one of the brief practitioner oriented pamphlets called On Points produced by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). This On Point is for all teachers who want to explore issues around homeless children.
• Tools of Exclusion: Race, Disability, and (Re)segregated Education
  The authors explore the dynamic interplay between racism discrimination against someone based on perceived 'ability"in the resistance to school desegregation and inclusion of students with disabilities in general education. In attending to the workings of power that connect these two histories, the authors show how racialized notions of ability functioned to uphold segregated schooling and justify the use of special education as a tool of racial resegregation.