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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: THE SPECIAL EDUCATION SILO - Part 2
Description: There is a bit of racism in the special education silo. I used to describe special education as a field β as in βthe field of special education.β And indeed, it did used to be a field. You can see this field when reading articles from the major special education academic journals in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was a field. Not a farmerβs field but a field in the wild. This kind of field is a beautiful place. It is an ecosystem, with birds, other animals, and a wide variety of plant life. And a field in the wild...