In this article Ann Logsdon, a school psychologist who specializes in helping parents and teachers support students disabilities, and has over 18 years of experience in special education. Logsdon in this article uses her extensive background in special education to address very concisely what Disproportionality is and how it is effecting students and schools. There are many hidden implications from disproportionality in special education. Logsdon highlights a few such as, hindering scholastic development, breed negative stereotypes of minorities, and create a continuing lower expectations of students who are misrepresented. This article does a very good job at providing valuable information to not only professionals in education but also to parents, who often time feel out of the loop.
"Oklahoma Parents Center." Oklahoma Parents Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2011.
The Oklahoma Parents Center, Dictionary is a compilation of all academic definitions for special education. This website is run and maintained by professionals in Education dedicated to training parents and families to help support children with disabilities. This website provides a vast amount of valuable information to parents and professional to help train them in many aspects from developing IEP's to Bully prevention. With limited resources to help educate and assist in the advancement of children with disabilities the Oklahoma Parents Center is a vital part of helping parents.
Joshua: Great job here-- you're finding good quality sources. I noticed a few sentence-level errors which were a little distracting (I'm thinking you could catch these during revision, based off your previous work). I was also wondering if your annotated bibs may have been improved, had you more explicitly put your sources into conversation with one another (eg, addeded a final sentence making a specific link between your source and your wider body of research? You may be doing this, I just need more specific cues).
ReplyDeleteKeep it up!