Alfredo Artiles and Beth Harry: Issues of Overrepresentation and Educational Equity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.

The article presents an interview with educators Alfredo Artiles and Beth Harry discussing the issues of overrepresentation and educational equity for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Alfredo J. Artiles is a professor of special education at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the implications of the role of culture in learning for the construction of competence in two contexts: special education practices and teacher learning in urban multicultural schools. Beth Harry is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, University of Miami, Florida. Both Artiles and Harry answers why it's problematic for children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. It has been argued that because there is a higher rate of poverty in minority communities, it is not surprising that African Americans and Native Americans. It is further argued that minority student special education placement is understandable because students from these communities possess significant deficits due to their upbringing and so forth.