Jake Lawrence · Critical Education / Disability Studies · Sorting & Education theme
Special education classification decides which children receive support, which receive labels, and which fall through entirely.
Examines special education diagnostic and placement systems as classification infrastructure. Draws on disability studies, critical special education scholarship, and infrastructure theory.
The same infrastructure dynamics in LLM planning layers and special education placement. Neither was designed for the people being sorted.
Psychiatric classification and special education placement: two instances of diagnostic systems that became sorting machines.
AI detection sorts students in higher ed. Special ed sorts children in K-12. Same pattern, different context, same consequences.
The tracker audits AI detection in universities. The Sorting Machine examines classification in K-12. Both document the gap between policy and experience.
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