Resumen

HOPE, Warren C.. Denying equal educational opportunity: a focus on ability tracking and special education. Perspectiva [online]. 2010, vol.28, n.01, pp.89-115. ISSN 0102-5473.

African Americans in the United States have lived with unequal educational opportunity for as long as they have been citizens. Denied access to quality education by segregation, they persevered until there was a legal remedy. Today, however, certain educational practices undermine African American children’s access to equal educational opportunity that was acquired in Brown versus Board of Education. Ability Tracking, a longstanding practice in America’s public schools and Special Education, a product of federal legislation are proving to be adversaries of equal education opportunity. Both are dragnets sweeping up huge numbers of African American children and diminishing their opportunity for equal educational outcomes. African American students’ educational experiences available through these practices raise the questions of has discrimination returned to education and are African American children receiving a lesser quality of education in comparison to their White peers. Ability Tracking and Special Education foster labeling and provide less rigorous learning; hence African American students’ future opportunities are threatened because of their entrapment in these schooling experiences.

Palabras clave : United States; Educational Segregation; Racial Discrimination; Educational Discrimination; Special education.

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