{"id":897,"date":"2015-02-17T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=897"},"modified":"2015-02-17T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:26:48","slug":"the-disproportionate-placement-of-african-american-males-in-special-education-programs-a-critique-of-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/the-disproportionate-placement-of-african-american-males-in-special-education-programs-a-critique-of-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disproportionate Placement of African American Males in Special Education Programs: A Critique of the Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry, B., &amp; Anderson, M. G. (1994). The Disproportionate Placement of African American Males in Special Education Programs: A Critique of the Process.\u00a0<em>The Journal of Negro Education<\/em>,\u00a063(4), 602.<\/p>\n<p>African-American males have been disproportionately placed in special education classes since the 1970s, especially in racially mixed &amp; lower socioeconomic school districts. Because placement is made on parameters subject to definitions of normalcy by given cultural group, as well as objective parameters, cultural bias in placement is possible &amp; undermines the validity of the criteria used for special education placement. White females teachers, whose perceptions are grounded in a different culture, are making the referrals to special education classes. Special education classes for black males only serve to lower self-esteem &amp; isolate the children even more from whites. It is recommended that the educational system be unified, that schools be restructured to prevent failure, &amp; that assessments be conducted to guide instruction rather than to label students. 3 Tables, 46 References. M. Pflum<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2967298<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry, B., &amp; Anderson, M. G. (1994). The Disproportionate Placement of African American Males in Special Education Programs: A Critique of the Process.\u00a0The Journal of Negro Education,\u00a063(4), 602. African-American males have been disproportionately placed in special education classes since the 1970s, especially in racially mixed &amp; lower socioeconomic school districts.&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/the-disproportionate-placement-of-african-american-males-in-special-education-programs-a-critique-of-the-process\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[20,922,923,924,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-education-spe","7":"tag-20","8":"tag-b-harry","9":"tag-disproportianality","10":"tag-m-g-anderson","11":"tag-self-esteem","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}