"Minority Disproportionality, Safe & Responsive Schools Project, Indiana Education Policy Center." Indiana University. Web. 22 Feb. 2011. http://www.indiana.edu/~safeschl/minor.html>.
The article Minority Disproportionality is a collection of reports addressing the overrepresentation of minority groups in special education programs nationwide. The introduction of this article lays the ground work and background knowledge for the reader to follow the article and continue on with each report that follows. The author did a good job at keeping the audience interested and reading flowing through the page. Each section of the web page is broken apart by a line and then followed by a bold faced heading which helps the reader to jump to the most important section of the article for their needs. Under each of the bold faced headings is a brief description of the report which is available for download from a link below.
I believe that the author does a very good job of addressing the main concerns of disproportionality in minority groups and what current measures are used. The author then counters this with what they are currently doing to aid in the correction and adaptation of new standards and curriculum. I feel that the author, like in my last write-up, again is speaking to the professional educator. With a better understanding of the websites background it is easy to address who the author is speaking to. This website is ran by the University of Indiana, to promote and help the development of “Safe and Responsive” schools to aid in identifying successful programs and changing ones that are not currently working.
The remaining article is written with authority and does a good job at siting sources used to draw into the authors arguments. However I was disappointed to find that the links to the works sited where broken and I wasn't able to find out what specific sources where used.
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