Tag: School suspension
Black girls are 4.19 times more likely to get suspended than...
Andrea Joseph-McCatty, University of Tennessee
Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the...
Students are suspended less when their teacher has the same race...
Matthew Shirrell, George Washington University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Millions of kids get suspended or expelled each year – but...
Alysse Loomis, University of Utah
Each school year, nearly 3 million K-12 students get suspended and over 100,000 get...
School suspensions don’t stop violence – they help students celebrate it
Charles Bell, Illinois State University
When school officials suspend students, the idea is to maintain a safe environment and deter violence and other problematic...
How activists are fighting racial disparities in school discipline
Mark R Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston
Harsh and racially disparate discipline practices are widespread in America’s schools.
Not so long ago in Texas, for instance,...
Kids of color get kicked out of school at higher rates...
Samuel Song, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they had been waiting for a business...