Learning disabilities drove almost the entire rise in ninth-grade special education enrollment¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The rise in ninth-grade special education eligibility was almost entirely due to increased learning disability classification, which grew from 7.2 to 11.4 percent; by 1999–00 seven of every ten students classified eligible had a learning disability. → Shazia Rafiullah Miller and Robert M. Gladden 2002

Evidence¶

Shazia Rafiullah Miller and Robert M. Gladden 2002¶

Shazia Rafiullah Miller and Robert M. Gladden. (2002). Changing Special Education Enrollments: Causes and Distribution Among Schools. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/changing-special-education-enrollments-causes-and-distribution-among-schools

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Disability-category trend analysis of CPS ninth graders, 1993–94 to 1999–00 (Figure 5). The report attributes the increase "almost entirely" to learning disability identification, with the percent of ninth graders with learning disabilities rising from 7.2 to 11.4 while other classifications changed little.

"The increase in the percent of ninth graders eligible for special education services is almost entirely the result of an increase in the percent of students identified as having a learning disability"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Learning Disabilities and Developmental Differences — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Eleven struggling neighborhood high schools saw special education entry rise from 16 to 30 percent, and learning-disabled ninth graders were increasingly separated in English classrooms — related
• Students were identified for special education after failing the promotion gate, not before taking it — related
• The percentage of Chicago ninth graders identified as eligible for special education services rose from 11.5 to 16.4 percent between 1993–94 and 1999–00 — related
• Special education enrollment in ninth grade rose from 11.5 percent in 1993-94 to 16.4 percent in 1999-00, concentrating students with disabilities in neighborhood high schools — related
• CPS sharply reduced the number of non-graded (grade 20) special education students of grades 3-8 age, from 6,180 in 1992 to 773 in 1999 — related