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Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality

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Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality

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Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality (DCASD)

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The Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality is a U.S. Department of Education-supported center dedicated to working with state and local education agencies to help build their capacity to identify and address significant disproportionality by more accurately collecting, reporting, analyzing, and using their Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) data.

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Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

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Reimagining Approaches to Dismantling Disproportionality in Special Education and Beyond

By John Jacobs, David Lopez

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Despite long-standing efforts to address and eliminate disproportionality in special education, inequities remain and continue to negatively impact Black, Indigenous, and other students of color with Individualized Education Programs. This brief from the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) supports state education agencies, local education agencies, offices of special education, providers of technical assistance and professional development or professional learning, and other education leaders to rethink and reimagine how to address disproportionality in special education by addressing inequities in the entire system.

In this brief, education leaders will find actionable steps that help to address disproportionality, including:

Reimagining Disproportionality in Special Education: The brief encourages a shift from a compliance-focused approach to a more transformative one, emphasizing the need to address disproportionality in special education by confronting the systemic inequities that perpetuate it.

Centering Race and Culture: The brief stresses that acknowledging and understanding the impact of race and culture is essential for effective change.

Using Data to Uncover Root Causes: The brief highlights the crucial significance of using data to uncover the root causes of inequities and implement effective strategies to disrupt disproportionality.

Fixing Educational Systems, Not Students and Families: The brief emphasizes improving educational systems rather than placing blame on students and their families.

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Copyright: 2023
Format: PDF
Pages: 12
Publisher: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center at WestEd

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Reimagining Approaches to Dismantling Disproportionality in Special Education and Beyond

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This WEEAC brief offers actionable steps that help education leaders reimagine how to address disproportionality in special education by confronting systemic inequities, including insights about how to approach compliance, center race and culture, and use data.

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Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)

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Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)

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https://edinstruments.org/instruments/color-blind-racial-attitudes-scale-cobras

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Self-reported survey designed to assess denial of the existence of racism and racial dynamics. Higher scores on each of the CoBRAS factors and the total score are suggested to be related to greater: (a) global belief in a just world; (b) sociopolitical dimensions of a belief in a just world, (c) racial and gender intolerance, and (d) racial prejudice.

Keum, B. T., Miller, M. J., Lee, M., & Chen, G. A. (2018). Color-blind racial attitudes scale for Asian Americans: Testing the factor structure and measurement invariance across generational status. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 9(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000100

Neville, H. A., Lilly, R. L., Duran, G., Lee, R. M., & Browne, L. (2000). Construction and initial validation of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 47(1), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.47.1.59

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Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)

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Self-reported survey designed to assess denial of the existence of racism and racial dynamics. Higher scores on each of the CoBRAS factors and the total score are suggested to be related to greater: (a) global belief in a just world; (b) sociopolitical dimensions of a belief in a just world, (c) racial and gender intolerance, and (d) racial prejudice.

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Signing up for Research Distribution List Victor mentioned

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Signing up for Research Distribution List Victor mentioned

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