How do poverty and a family's socioeconomic status affect the disproportional representation of minorities in some special education programs? What other factors may affect this overrepresentation?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Poverty means limited access to health care, poor nutrition, adverse living conditions result in the increased probability of children being at-risk for learning and/or developmental difficulties
Other factors:
Faulty identification procedures
Ineffective pre-referral strategies
Test bias
Inappropriate assessment techniques
Lack of standardized tests for EL students
Discrepancy between home culture and school expectations
Teacher bias – different academic and/or behavior performance standards from minority students
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