NEPC Resources on Special Education

(September 3, 2024). Help or Harmful? The Federal Role in Supporting Students with Disabilities in Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-fierros-090324

(April 27, 2023). How “DefectCraft” Helps Explain Racial Disparities in Special Education . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-defectcraft-042723

(October 12, 2021). The Subversion of IDEA and Federal Policies Designed to Reduce Racial Disparities in Special Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-special-ed-101221

Bruce D. Baker (September 2, 2021). NEPC Review: Charter School Funding: Support for Students with Disabilities (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2021). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/funding-disabilities

Elizabeth B. Kozleski (September 17, 2020). NEPC Review: Special Education and Distance Learning: Supporting Students through the Pandemic (ExcelinEd, June 2020). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/special-education-pandemic

(February 13, 2020). NEPC Valentine’s Day Special: A Dozen Roses for Public Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-public-schools-021320

(November 12, 2019). College Admissions Fraud and 504 Plans: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Edward Garcia Fierros. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-admissions-111119

Tammy Kolbe (June 25, 2019). Funding Special Education: Charting a Path that Confronts Complexity and Crafts Coherence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/special-ed

Mark Weber (March 12, 2019). NEPC Review: Fairness in Facilities: Why Idaho Public Charter Schools Need More Facilities Funding (Bellwether Education Partners, January 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/facilities-funding

(February 5, 2019). A School Where All Students Are Challenged and Supported. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-seaside-020519

(November 20, 2018). The Education Debt. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-education-debt-112018

(September 4, 2018). Are Four-Day Weeks Bad for Students?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-four-day-weeks-090418

T. Jameson Brewer, Christopher Lubienski (April 13, 2017). NEPC Review: Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models (American Enterprise Institute, February 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-charters

Julie F. Mead, Mark Weber (February 17, 2016). Review of Special Education and English Language Learner Students in Boston Charter Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-charter-expansion

Edward García Fierros, Katherine Cosner (June 8, 2015). NEPC Review: ESEA Reauthorization: How We Can Build Upon No Child Left Behind's Progress for Students with Disabilities in a Reauthorized ESEA (Center for American Progress, April 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-ESEA-reauthorization

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, Brian Horvitz (March 4, 2014). Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/virtual-schools-annual-2014

Julie F. Mead (November 7, 2013). NEPC Review: Why the Gap? Special Education and New York City Charter Schools (Center on Reinventing Public Education and Manhattan Institute, September 2013). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-why-the-gap

Bruce D. Baker (December 6, 2012). Review of New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-ny-special-ed

Janette K. Klingner (October 5, 2010). NEPC Review: Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Diverse Learners (May 2010). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-english-learners

Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 2009). The Intersection of Race, Culture, Language, and Disability: Implications for Urban Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/intersection-race-culture-language-and-disability-implications-urban-education

Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Kevin G. Welner (December 29, 2008). Fellows’ Education Letters to the President. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/Letters-to-Obama

John T. Yun (May 22, 2008). NEPC Review: The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida's McKay Scholarship Program (Manhattan Institute, April 2008). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-effect-of-special

Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 2008). Schooling and the Construction of Identity Among Minority Students in Spain and the United States. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/schooling-and-construction-identity-among-minority-students-spain-and-united-states

Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 2007). Discarding the Deficit Model. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/discarding-deficit-model

Janette K. Klingner (May 9, 2006). The Special Education Referral and Decision-Making Process for English Language Learners: Child Study Team Meetings and Staffing. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/special-education-referral-and-decision-making-process-english-language-learners-child-s

Janette K. Klingner (January 18, 2006). English Language Learners Who Struggle with Reading: Language Acquisition or Learning Disabilities? . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/english-language-learners-who-struggle-reading-language-acquisition-or-learning-disabili

Janette K. Klingner, P. Edwards (January 1, 2006). Cultural Considerations with Response to Intervention Models. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/cultural-considerations-with-response-intervention-models

Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 2005). Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education through. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/addressing-disproportionate-representation-culturally-and-linguistically-diverse-student

Kevin G. Welner (January 1, 2004). The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/the-overrepresentation-culturally-and-linguistically-diverse-students-special-education

David C. Berliner (January 1, 2004). These Youths Deserve Better. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/these-youths-deserve-better

Russell Gersten, Linda K. Elksnin, Daniel Boudah, Janette K. Klingner, David Scanlon (January 1, 2003). Important Publications in the Field of LD in Light of Imminent Topics. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/important-publications-field-ld-light-imminent-topics

Janette K. Klingner, Alfredo J. Artiles (January 1, 2003). When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/when-should-bilingual-students-be-special-education

Kenneth R. Howe, Kevin G. Welner (January 1, 2002). School Choice and the Pressure to Perform: Déjà Vu for Children with Disabilities?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/school-choice-and-pressure-perform-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu-children-with-disabilities

S. Vaughn, Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 2002). The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of an LD Specialist. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/the-changing-roles-and-responsibilities-ld-specialist

T. Parrish, Edward W. Wiley, G. W. Bohrnstedt (January 1, 2001). Class Size Reduction and Special Education Referrals and Placements. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/class-size-reduction-and-special-education-referrals-and-placements

Daniel J. Losen, Kevin G. Welner (January 1, 2001). Disabling Discrimination in Our Public Schools: Comprehensive Legal Challenges to Inappropriate and Inadequate Special Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/disabling-discrimination-our-public-schools-comprehensive-legal-challenges-inappropriate

M. E. Arguelles, M. T. Hughes, Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn (January 1, 1999). Sustaining Research-Based Practices in Reading: A Three-Year Follow-Up. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/sustaining-research-based-practices-reading-a-three-year-follow-up

S. Vaughn, Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 1999). Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic Reading Intervention. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/teaching-reading-comprehension-through-collaborative-strategic-reading-intervention

S. Vaughn, J. S. Schumm, B. Elbaum, M. T. Hughes, Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 1998). Outcomes for Students With and Without Learning Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/outcomes-students-with-and-without-learning-disabilities-inclusive-classrooms

Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, M. T. Hughes, J. S. Schumm (January 1, 1998). A Collaborative Effort to Enhance Reading and Writing Instruction in Inclusion Classrooms. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/a-collaborative-effort-enhance-reading-and-writing-instruction-inclusion-classrooms

J. S. Schumm, S. Vaughn, Janette K. Klingner (January 1, 1998). Collaborative Strategic Reading During Social Studies in Heterogeneous Fourth-Grade Classrooms. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/collaborative-strategic-reading-during-social-studies-heterogeneous-fourth-grade-classro

Janette K. Klingner, J. W. Forgan, P. Cohen, S. Vaughn, J. S. Schumm (January 1, 1998). Inclusion or Pull-Out: Which Do Students Prefer?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/inclusion-or-pull-out-which-do-students-prefer

Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn (January 1, 1996). Reciprocal Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities Who Use English as a Second La. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/reciprocal-teaching-reading-comprehension-strategies-students-with-learning-disabilities

Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, L. Saumell, J. S. Schumm (January 1, 1995). Students' Views of Instructional Practices: Implications for Inclusion. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/students-views-instructional-practices-implications-inclusion

Lorrie Shepard (January 1, 1987). The New Push for Excellence: Widening the Schism Between Regular and Special Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/new-push-excellence-widening-schism-between-regular-and-special-education

W. A. Davis (January 1, 1983). Specialists' Use of Tests and Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/specialists-use-tests-and-clinical-judgment-diagnosis-learning-disabilities

Mary Lee Smith (January 1, 1983). An Evaluation of the Identification of Learning Disabled Students in Colorado. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/an-evaluation-identification-learning-disabled-students-colorado

Mary Lee Smith (January 1, 1983). Characteristics of Pupils Identified as Learning Disabled. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/characteristics-pupils-identified-learning-disabled