TY - BOOK AU - Harry,Beth AU - Klingner,Janette K. TI - Why are so many minority students in special education?: understanding race & disability in schools SN - 9780807755068 (pbk.) AV - LC 3981 .H36 2014 PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - Teachers College Press KW - Special education KW - United States KW - Evaluation KW - Children with disabilities KW - Education KW - Discrimination in education KW - Minorities KW - Educational equalization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index; Overview: Ethnic disproportionality in special education -- School structure: institutional bias and individual agency -- Cultural consonance, dissonance, and the nuances of racism -- In the classroom: opportunity to learn -- The construction of family identity: stereotypes and cultural capital -- At the conference table: the discourse of identity construction -- Bilingual issues and the referral process -- Constructing intellectual disability: cracks and redundancies -- Constructing learning disabilities: redundancies and discrepancies -- Constructing emotional/behavior disorders: from troubling to troubled behavior -- Into special education: exile or solution? -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. Research methods: Who are we and how did we do this research? ER -