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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Overrepresentation"”.
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Overrepresentation of ELLs in Special Education
English language learners (ELLs) face a challenge when placed in the correct environment. ELLs have been misplaced in classrooms in the United States. Research highlights the response-to-intervention (RTI) as a way to collect data to ensure students end up in the correct placement. However, …
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A study of overrepresentation of minorities in special education in southern New Jersey public schools
… of this study was to determine if there is an overrepresentation of minority students in special education in southern New Jersey Public Schools. Data was disaggregated to the district level for 25 randomly chosen public school districts in southern New Jersey. Data were reported on the total …
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Reducing the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in Canada’s Criminal Justice System through Attention to Colonialism and Its Consequences
The significant overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada’s criminal justice system has been a persistent problem for decades and is still a problem today, despite efforts by various governments to tackle the issue. However, a recent follow-up study on Indigenous offenders who managed to …
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An analysis of an urban school district's general education intervention to reduce overrepresentation of minority students in special education
… education intervention initiative to address overrepresentation of minority students in special education within the school district. The initiative included all nine of the elementary schools in the district. It included training teams in each school in the use of a problem solving process as …
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Disproportionality of Black Males in Special Education: A Case Study Analysis of Educator Perceptions in a Southeastern Urban High School
<p>Disproportionality is the overrepresentation and/or underrepresentation of a specific population or demographic group including gender, race/ethnicity, or socioeconomic class in special education programs relative to the group’s presence in the overall student body. Research suggested that the …
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Juvenile Injustice: Disproportionate Minority Contact in Oklahoma's Juvenile Justice System
<p>Statistics show that minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system is not a new phenomenon. The problem, however, is not going away and might even be getting worse. In 2008, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report showed that 52% of juvenile Violent Crime Index arrests, and 33% of juvenile …
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Reducing Disparities in the Adult Criminal Justice System: Creating a Model for Denver County
<p>Overrepresentation in the criminal justice system of people who are marginalized by society has been researched for decades. Major challenges as they relate to overrepresentation of people of color in the system include a silo approach to research which leans towards analyzing system decision …
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Racial and socioeconomic differences in special education students returning to general education
… has been identified for decades as containing an overrepresentation of minorities classified. This study has analyzed retrospective data from the New Jersey Department of Special Education public website to examine if this pattern of overrepresentation of minorities continues to be represented in …
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A qualitative analysis of teachers’ and psychologists’ perceptions of disproportionality within special education
… 1) knowledge of disproportionality and the overrepresentation of Black students; 2) perceived contributors to disproportionality; and 3) systemic barriers for Black students. Findings suggest that school psychologists have a breadth of knowledge of disproportionality and the …
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A Call to Action: How the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has influenced policing policy and practice in Ontario.
… trauma that perpetuates systemic racism, overrepresentation within the criminal justice system, and a paradox of over and under-policing. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) detailed the roles of colonialism and fostered an environment for reconciliation through the Calls to …
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Factors that may contribute to the placement of Latino English language learners in special education: Perceptions of Directors of Special Education in California
… Education in California believe that there is an overrepresentation of Latino English language learners in special education? (2) What do Directors of Special Education perceive are the factors that lead to the placement of Latino English language learners in special education classes? …
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Culinary Man
… follows from Sylvia Wynter's account of "the overrepresentation of Man," which describes the colonial field of subjectivity which revolves around a normatively white, male, and European figure of authority. Drawing from these sources, this dissertation seeks to give a theoretical analysis of …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… sustain the Wynterian onto-epistemological "Overrepresentation of Man," an emergent archipelagic politics of heterogenous coalition-building presents a viable path of becoming for liberatory political projects.
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The portrayal of gender over time in Disney animated films
… in each film, this study found that there is an overrepresentation of male characters, that males and females are largely portrayed in gender stereotypic ways in Disney animated films, and that Disney's gender portrayals are changing over time.
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Do Objective Measures reduce the Disproportionate Rates of Minority Youth Placed in Detention: Validation of a Risk Assessment Instrument?
The overrepresentation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system, often referred to as disproportionate minority contact (DMC) can be found at many stages of the juvenile justice continuum. Further, research has shown that overrepresentation is not necessarily related to higher rates of …
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Stolen past: Shattered futures, aboriginal justice in Canada
… the importance of culture conflict in the overrepresentation of Aboriginals within the Canadian criminal justice system, it has also recognized that culture conflict alone is not responsible for all the flaws within the system as it pertains to Aboriginals. This thesis is of the opinion …
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Proportional Representation of Students with Disabilities based on Race, Gender and Socio-Economic Status in Virginia 2008-2009 and 2013-2014: Has it changed?
… may have contributed to the limited findings. Overrepresentation was determined through the use of the standard 10 formula for overrepresentation. Findings for 2008-2009 revealed that Black students were identified as over represented in the area of Intellectual Disabilities (ID) in 2% of the …
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Cultivation of fear of Blacks in Las Vegas television news media
… Las Vegas market to become fearful due to the overrepresentation of crime committed by Black offenders. One research question and two hypotheses were generated for this study. Research question one asked if there was an inverse relationship existing between media reports of index crimes and …
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Punishing the poor again?: irregularity, the 'criminalisation of migration' and precarious labour markets in the UK and Germany
… control across the Western world and the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in European prisons has revitalised criminological interest in issues of migration. Alessandro De Giorgi (2010: 153) and others contend that restrictive, 'illegalising' immigration admission policies and …
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An LRE Placement Loophole: A Critical Policy Analysis of LRE Placement in Defining Disproportionality of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
… persisted across all CLD groups; 2) overrepresentation persisted across all LRE placement levels; 3) suppressed and missing data prevented some CLDS groups from being monitored and reported from certain dis/ability categories under all LRE definitions; and 4) overrepresentation …
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