Survey of Attendance Practices
Category: Student Well-Being
Title I and IDEA are complementary federal responses to different sources of low achievement. Title I targets opportunity-mediated underachievement, while IDEA targets persistent underachievement for which deficits in ordinary educational opportunity are not the primary explanation. A simple framework and stylized simulation show that performance-based IDEA increasingly converges toward the same opportunity margin already served by Title I.
Keywords
Title I; IDEA; special education; persistent underachievement; educational opportunity
Education level
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/b6c9-2b88
