Closing the School Discipline Gap - Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion

Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school in the US annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes.

About the author

Daniel J. Losen is director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school in the US annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel J. (EDT) Losen
• Assisted by: Alfredo J Artiles (Editor), Alfredo J. Artiles (Editor), Elizabeth B Kozleski (Editor), Elizabeth B. Kozleski (Editor), Daniel J Losen (Editor), Daniel J. Losen (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2014
• EAN: 9780807756133
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5613-3
• Series: Disability, Equity, and Cultur; Disability, Equity, and Culture Series; Disability, Equity, and Culture Series; Disability, Equity, and Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung, Didaktische Kompetenz und Lehrmethoden, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Teaching, EDUCATION / Classroom Management