Please check out how a rural high school community engaged in collective speculative future-making to disrupt oppressive, settler-colonial school systems amid challenges posed by the dual pandemics of COVID-19, racial unrest, and political backlash.

Dismantling the Settler-Colonial Punitive School System: Speculative Future-Making with a Rural High School Community Amid Uncertainty and Political Backlash - Dosun Ko, Aydin Bal, Dian Mawene, Linda ... Background/Context: In the United States, American Indian youth face multiple forms of marginalization in a settler-colonial school system. In particular, exclu...

I’m thrilled to share our publication exploring the implementation process of a new support system co-designd by a rural high school community to dismantle racialized school discipline practices affecting Indigenous youth and their families:
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A Joint Position of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Council for Exceptional Children-
Teaching Mathematics to Students with Disabilities
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Equal Access to Elementary and Secondary Education for Students Who Are English Learners
with Disabilities

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DefectCraft: An Interdisciplinary Framework to Analyze and Address the Stratifying Force of Disability | Urban Collaborative CollabCast Dr. Alfredo J. Artiles introduces the concept of "defect craft" to explore how ideologies about disability intersect with racial disparities in education, particularly in the overrepresentation of stu...

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Commemorating the 48th Anniversary of the IDEA On the 48th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, OSEP reflects on the past year.

Commemorating the 48th Anniversary of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act

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This paper synthesize empricial studies to examine why racialized outcome disparities in school discipline, placement, and disability identification persist despite the presence of equity-oriented policy remedies in Individuals with Disability Education Act.

When Good Intentions Go Awry: A Critical Policy Analysis of Equity-Focused Policies Intended to Reduce Racial Disparities in Special Education - Dosun Ko, Dian Mawene, Yehyang Lee, Sumin Lim, Jahyun Y... In the U.S. education system, students of color experience multiple forms of marginalization at the intersection of markers of difference. These injustices mani...

I'am excited to share a new publication.

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How Pedagogy Makes the Difference in U.S. Schools Abstract. Emerging from the modern U.S. civil rights era, scholars have promoted ethnic and multicultural studies as strategies for improving the educational performance of students who have tradition...

This is a good reminder for teachers and teacher educators!

How Pedagogy Makes the Difference in U.S. Schools direct.mit.edu/daed/article...

I am co-editing a special issue. Please see the call for proposals:
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What would it mean if President-elect Trump dismantled the US Department of Education? Donald Trump stated during his comeback campaign that he’d dismantle the Education Department if elected. Will Linda McMahon, his nominee for secretary of education, lead the way?

Kevin Welner (NEPC Director) asks/answers: "What would it mean if President-elect Trump dismantled the US Department of Education?" (& a few other questions) — theconversation.com/what-would-i... #edpolicy #edusky

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