Cultural Politics, Ideology, and Methodology in Disproportionality Research: A Rejoinder

We summarize the role of cultural politics in special education. We analyze the 2019 discourse of Whitford and Carrero, our respondents, about the role of ideology and models of disability. Our comments further explain how we see the relationship between theorizing and reality. We contrast the deficit thinking rhetoric with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act’s legal model in the disability identification. We review the recent...