It's been over a month since I've last posted, and for good reason: I have finally gotten down and dirty on my thesis! So, yes, I have been tapping away at my computer all month but with the intent of churning out a draft of my first chapter. Haven't quite finished it yet, but I am finally feeling confident that I may just actually get this monster done in the short year I have to research it, write it, and submit it!
So what is it about, you ask?
In a nutshell:
I am investigating the underlying cause of disproportionate representation and placement of culturally/linguistically diverse (CLD) students generally, and African American students specifically, in Berkeley Unified School District’s Special Education program with a focus on the overrepresentation of specific-learning disability (SLD), speech/language impairment (SLI), emotionally disturbed (ED), and mental retardation (MR) labels, and in contrast the underrepresentation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) label.
That was a mouth full. It's more fun as a word cloud. I went to wordle for mine. Plug in any words you want (I used my thesis introduction) and it will generate it for you.
