Unpacking the Placement of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Special Education Programs and Services in the Early Grades: School Readiness as a Predictive Variable
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacob Hibel
Susan C. Faircloth
George Farkas
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 78, no. 3, Fall, 2008, pp. 498-528
Description
Study found that once adjustments were made for other contextual factors, the rate of placement was comparable to other students and the greatest predictor of academic success was educational readiness, not ethnic background.