Why is Roma Education Still Separate and Unequal?: Employing Dis/Crit to Explain the Enduring Overrepresentation of “Gypsies” in Special Education

In 2007 the European Court of Human Rights demanded an end to educational practices that made it twenty-seven times more likely for Roma children to end up in schools for the “mentally disabled” than non-Roma. In this brown bag talk, Deborah Michaels, Associate Professor of Education at Grinnell College, provides an analysis of how Dis/Crit, a framework for interrogating the overrepresentation of Black and Brown students in special education in the U.S., can help make sense of the endurance of school segregation in EU states almost fifteen years after the landmark ruling.