Our team was awarded a grant by a private organization in partnership with a local research network to examine disparities in the special education referrals and services provided to young children in New York City (NYC). Our convergent mixed-methods study is exploring how the NYC preschool ecology—consisting of process, people and their positionalities, and practices—influences teachers’ decisions to refer and include minoritized young children who are at risk for or have developmental delays or disabilities. In this colloquium we: (1) describe key issues in the US and the NYC contexts that led to this design; (2) present the study methodology, including its theoretical underpinnings; and (3) discuss implications for systems change in NYC.

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审视纽约市学前教育包容性的生态：一项正在进行的混合方法研究

我们的团队获得了一家私人组织与当地研究网络合作的拨款，以研究纽约市 (NYC) 为幼儿提供的特殊教育转介和服务的差异。我们的聚合混合方法研究正在探索纽约市学前生态（由过程、人员及其立场和实践组成）如何影响教师转介和纳入有发育迟缓或残疾风险或有发育迟缓或残疾的少数群体幼儿的决定。在本次研讨会中，我们：（1）描述导致此设计的美国和纽约环境中的关键问题；(2) 介绍研究方法，包括其理论基础；(3) 讨论对纽约市系统变革的影响。