Drexel researchers evaluated a 2014 program implemented by Kevin Bethel when he was deputy police commissioner that led to fewer arrests of students in schools.
Teachers had more negative comments about Black boys than they did about other groups.
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Despite a ‘damning’ report, the alternative education system still works wonders with students outside the mainstream. What it needs is more money and commitment.
Race, class and gender can not only impact the education that students receive, but also the punishments they receive.
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A third of students say they don’t like school, and that dislike often begins around the time they enter high school. But the reasons they give point the way to solutions to this problem.
Black and Latino students are suspended at higher rates than their white peers.
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Abuse, neglect or witnessing violence at home can lead kids to misbehave. Some schools are doing away with expulsions to focus on childhood trauma instead.
Suspensions have continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while children are attending remotely from their homes.
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Although new evidence shows mixed results for “restorative justice” practices, that’s no reason for schools to stop looking for alternatives to school suspensions, a school safety scholar argues.
The code of the street – where respect is won by fighting – often follows children into school.
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While school suspensions are meant to deter violence and other troublesome behavior, some students see being suspended as something that makes them more popular and tough, a researcher has found.
Numerous data show black students are kicked out of school at disproportionate rates.
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A grassroots movement to end racial disparities in schoolhouse discipline is beginning to take root throughout the nation and winning important victories at the local level. Can it sustain the effort?
Suspending a student for wagging school likely wouldn’t have the desired punitive effect.
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The recent arrest of two black patrons who were waiting on a business meeting at a Starbucks has parallels to how black children are unfairly discipline in school, a researcher argues.
Efforts to ban school suspensions to reduce racial disparities are on the rise, but experts warn they could backfire.
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Some school districts are moving to cut back on the use of suspensions. But if school discipline reforms are not implemented in a thoughtful way, classrooms may become harder to manage.
For many young Indigenous children, schools are Eurocentric establishments offering minimal cultural connections.
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‘Cage-like’ facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.