Publications: Special Education

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

NEPC Review: Charter School Funding: Support for Students with Disabilities (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2021)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

September 2, 2021

NEPC Review: Special Education and Distance Learning: Supporting Students through the Pandemic (ExcelinEd, June 2020)

NEPC Review

Elizabeth B. Kozleski

September 17, 2020

Funding Special Education: Charting a Path that Confronts Complexity and Crafts Coherence

Policy Brief

Tammy Kolbe

June 25, 2019

NEPC Review: Fairness in Facilities: Why Idaho Public Charter Schools Need More Facilities Funding (Bellwether Education Partners, January 2019)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

March 12, 2019

NEPC Review: Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models (American Enterprise Institute, February 2017)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Christopher Lubienski

April 13, 2017

Review of Special Education and English Language Learner Students in Boston Charter Schools

NEPC Review

Julie F. Mead and Mark Weber

February 17, 2016

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)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Katherine Cosner

June 8, 2015

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, and Brian Horvitz

March 4, 2014

NEPC Review: Why the Gap? Special Education and New York City Charter Schools (Center on Reinventing Public Education and Manhattan Institute, September 2013)

NEPC Review

Julie F. Mead

November 7, 2013

Review of New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

December 6, 2012

NEPC Review: Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Diverse Learners (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Janette K. Klingner

October 5, 2010

The Intersection of Race, Culture, Language, and Disability: Implications for Urban Education

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2009

Fellows’ Education Letters to the President

Policy Brief

Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Kevin G. Welner

December 29, 2008

NEPC Review: The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida's McKay Scholarship Program (Manhattan Institute, April 2008)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

May 22, 2008

Schooling and the Construction of Identity Among Minority Students in Spain and the United States

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Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2008

Discarding the Deficit Model

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Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2007

The Special Education Referral and Decision-Making Process for English Language Learners: Child Study Team Meetings and Staffing

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Janette K. Klingner

May 9, 2006

English Language Learners Who Struggle with Reading: Language Acquisition or Learning Disabilities?

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Janette K. Klingner

January 18, 2006

Cultural Considerations with Response to Intervention Models

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Janette K. Klingner and P. Edwards

January 1, 2006

Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education through

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Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2005

The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education

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Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2004

These Youths Deserve Better

Legacy Publication

David C. Berliner

January 1, 2004

When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner and Alfredo J. Artiles

January 1, 2003

Important Publications in the Field of LD in Light of Imminent Topics

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Russell Gersten, Linda K. Elksnin, Daniel Boudah, Janette K. Klingner, and David Scanlon

January 1, 2003

School Choice and the Pressure to Perform: Déjà Vu for Children with Disabilities?

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Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2002

The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of an LD Specialist

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S. Vaughn and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2002

Class Size Reduction and Special Education Referrals and Placements

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T. Parrish, Edward W. Wiley, and G. W. Bohrnstedt

January 1, 2001

Disabling Discrimination in Our Public Schools: Comprehensive Legal Challenges to Inappropriate and Inadequate Special Education

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Daniel J. Losen and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2001

Sustaining Research-Based Practices in Reading: A Three-Year Follow-Up

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M. E. Arguelles, M. T. Hughes, Janette K. Klingner, and S. Vaughn

January 1, 1999

Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic Reading Intervention

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S. Vaughn and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 1999

Inclusion or Pull-Out: Which Do Students Prefer?

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Janette K. Klingner, J. W. Forgan, P. Cohen, S. Vaughn, and J. S. Schumm

January 1, 1998

Outcomes for Students With and Without Learning Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms

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S. Vaughn, J. S. Schumm, B. Elbaum, M. T. Hughes, and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 1998

A Collaborative Effort to Enhance Reading and Writing Instruction in Inclusion Classrooms

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Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, M. T. Hughes, and J. S. Schumm

January 1, 1998

Collaborative Strategic Reading During Social Studies in Heterogeneous Fourth-Grade Classrooms

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J. S. Schumm, S. Vaughn, and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 1998

Reciprocal Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities Who Use English as a Second La

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Janette K. Klingner and S. Vaughn

January 1, 1996

Students' Views of Instructional Practices: Implications for Inclusion

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Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, L. Saumell, and J. S. Schumm

January 1, 1995

The New Push for Excellence: Widening the Schism Between Regular and Special Education

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Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1987

Specialists' Use of Tests and Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities

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W. A. Davis

January 1, 1983

An Evaluation of the Identification of Learning Disabled Students in Colorado

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Mary Lee Smith

January 1, 1983

Characteristics of Pupils Identified as Learning Disabled

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Mary Lee Smith

January 1, 1983