Disproportionally labeling CLDs as special needs students can lead to unwarranted or inappropriate services, reduced expectations,
less rigorous curriculum, stigmatization, and racially segregated environments.
In addition to socioeconomic realities that may deprive students of valuable resources, high - achieving black students may be exposed to
less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and have teachers who expect less of them academically than they expect of similarly high - achieving white students.
Not exact matches
The challenge is expanding the students» excitement about native studies to all subjects while fighting the perception that the
curriculum is
less rigorous than in other public schools.
Not the educators; not the suburban parents who are complaining about the «out - of - control testing regime»; but those students, mainly poor and minority, who are the most vulnerable, many of whom will be «tracked» into
less rigorous vocational
curriculum pathways in ways that benefit school district graduation rates and ratings and the educator bonuses that follow.