Enclaves of Privilege: Access and Opportunity for Students with Disabilities in Urban K-8 Schools
| Autor: | Christine Ashby, Lauren Ashby, Julia M. White, Siqi Li, Beth A. Ferri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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History Learning community 05 social sciences 050301 education School district Social issues Object (philosophy) Disability studies Education Power (social and political) 03 medical and health sciences Mathematics education Sociology 0305 other medical science 0503 education Inclusion (education) Privilege (social inequality) |
| Zdroj: | History of Education Quarterly. 60:407-429 |
| ISSN: | 1748-5959 0018-2680 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/heq.2020.39 |
| Popis: | Middle grades education has been the object of efforts to remediate US education to address an array of social problems. Districts have sought out K-8 models to create smaller learning communities, require fewer school transitions, and allow sustained student connections. This paper offers a historical analysis of K-8 schools, drawing on statistical and spatial methods and a DisCrit intersectional lens to illustrate how creating K-8 schools produced enclaves of privilege in one urban school district. K-8 schools in our target district became whiter and wealthier than district averages. Students with disabilities attending K-8 schools tended to be placed in more inclusive classrooms, where they were more likely to be integrated alongside nondisabled peers than counterparts attending traditional middle schools. We consider how the configuration of K-8 schools, which could be considered an administrative decision to better serve students, has obscured interworkings of power and privilege. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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