New York Magazine - The Cut

Who gets to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity

disorder, and who gets left out? You can probably guess the

answer. A 2014 study by Paul L. Morgan, Ph.D., director of the

Center of Educational Disparities Research at Penn State, published in the

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that, among

kindergarteners in the United States, Black children are 70 percent less

likely to receive an official ADHD diagnosis than their white classmates.

Fast-forward to high school, specifically tenth grade, and white children are

roughly twice as likely to have already received an ADHD diagnosis (and

subsequent treatment) than their Black classmates, who are more likely to

be disciplinarily removed from their classrooms for having “emotional

disturbances...

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