The School Leader's Role with Response to Intervention with African American Males in Urban School Districts



The School Leader's Role with Response to Intervention with African American Males in Urban School Districts

Abstract

Research has shown a large population of African American students serving in special education programs. The gap in terms of academic performance is wide enough between African Americans and Caucasian colleagues. The over-representation of minority groups in special education is an outgrowth of the use of a discrepancy formula that compared the academic achievement scores of a student with that student's assessed Intelligence Quotient. The unbalanced number of African Americans ...