Closing the School Discipline Gap - Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion

Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school 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 todays profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes. Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and disability status. Part II examines potential remedies that show great promise, including a district-wide approach in Cleveland, Ohio, aimed at social and emotional learning strategies. Closing the School Discipline Gap is a call for action that focuses on an area in which public schools can and should make powerful improvements, in a relatively short period of time.

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: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2014
• EAN: 9780807756140
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5614-0
• Series: Disability, Equity, and Cultur; Disability, Equity, and Culture Series; Disability, Equity, and Culture Series; Disability, Equity, and Cultur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology