NEPC Resources on Special Education
(). Help or Harmful? The Federal Role in Supporting Students with Disabilities in Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-fierros-090324
(). How “DefectCraft” Helps Explain Racial Disparities in Special Education . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-defectcraft-042723
(). 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 (). 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 (). 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
(). NEPC Valentine’s Day Special: A Dozen Roses for Public Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-public-schools-021320
(). 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 (). Funding Special Education: Charting a Path that Confronts Complexity and Crafts Coherence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/special-ed
Mark Weber (). 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
(). A School Where All Students Are Challenged and Supported. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-seaside-020519
(). The Education Debt. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-education-debt-112018
(). Are Four-Day Weeks Bad for Students?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-four-day-weeks-090418
T. Jameson Brewer, Christopher Lubienski (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). Review of New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-ny-special-ed
Janette K. Klingner (). 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 (). 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 (). Fellows’ Education Letters to the President. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/Letters-to-Obama
John T. Yun (). 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 (). 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 (). Discarding the Deficit Model. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/discarding-deficit-model
Janette K. Klingner (). 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 (). 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 (). Cultural Considerations with Response to Intervention Models. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/cultural-considerations-with-response-intervention-models
Janette K. Klingner (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/when-should-bilingual-students-be-special-education
S. Vaughn, Janette K. Klingner (). The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of an LD Specialist. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/the-changing-roles-and-responsibilities-ld-specialist
Kenneth R. Howe, Kevin G. Welner (). 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
T. Parrish, Edward W. Wiley, G. W. Bohrnstedt (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic Reading Intervention. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/teaching-reading-comprehension-through-collaborative-strategic-reading-intervention
Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, M. T. Hughes, J. S. Schumm (). 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 (). 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 (). Inclusion or Pull-Out: Which Do Students Prefer?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/inclusion-or-pull-out-which-do-students-prefer
S. Vaughn, J. S. Schumm, B. Elbaum, M. T. Hughes, Janette K. Klingner (). 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 (). 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 (). Students' Views of Instructional Practices: Implications for Inclusion. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/students-views-instructional-practices-implications-inclusion
Lorrie Shepard (). 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 (). 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 (). 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 (). Characteristics of Pupils Identified as Learning Disabled. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/characteristics-pupils-identified-learning-disabled