Special education was created to support students with disabilities in schools, yet many
students are not identified with disabilities and placed in special education until after they …

This dissertation is comprised of three studies using restricted data from the ECLS-K: 1998
to address the questions who is placed in special education? and what happens after they …

This study examined students' movement in and out of special education and predictors for
later special education placement. The sample (N= 556) came from a response to …

It is important to understand how longitudinal patterns of special education placement differ
from cross-sectional incidence estimates in order to improve measurement precision and …

This study conducted secondary data analyses to examine whether the demographic
variables race, gender, SES, school status, and language status, and the early academic …

The purpose of this article is to (a) briefly discuss how special education reform movements
continue to influence school practices regarding special education placement decisions …

With the understanding that special education classification rates vary depending on
whether or not a district is located in an urban versus a suburban or rural district, the …

Abstract The US Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs collects
information from all states on the education of students with disabilities, including the …

Is placement in special education during the elementary grades associated with higher
school performance? To shed light on this question, we investigated the relationship …

It is widely recognized that the 12 percent of all youth in American public schools who have
disabilities comprise a set of students with distinct capacities and needs. Federal legislation …