Overview
- Explores discipline disparities in American schools using the most up-to-date research available
- Presents a comprehensive framework for defining and implementing interventions to improve equity and fairness in the application of school discipline
- Includes work from the top scholars in discipline reform
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Discipline Disparities: A Research-to-Practice Collaborative
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Understanding and Addressing Disparities: What We Are Learning and What We Can Do
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Conclusions and Implications
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Keywords
- School Discipline
- Discipline Disparities
- Racial Differences
- LGBTQ
- Discipline Inequities
- Discipline remedies
- Discipline solutions
- Implicit bias
- School Suspension
- School Expulsion
- Juvenile Justice
- Students of Color
- crime
- criminology
- education
- gender
- psychology
- quality
- research
- school
- social science
- social structure
- society
- sociology
About this book
This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities. School exclusion—out-of-school suspension and expulsion in particular—remains a substantial component of discipline in our nation’s schools, and those consequences continue to fall disproportionally on certain groups of learners. The negative consequences of frequent and inequitable use of school exclusion are substantial, including higher rates of academic failure, dropout, and contact with the juvenile justice system. As educators, policymakers, community leaders, and other youth-serving organizations begin the difficult work of creating more equitable school disciplinary systems, the need for effective disparity-reducing alternatives could not be more important. Drawing on the multi-year ground-breaking work of the Discipline Disparities Collaborative, the chapters in this book provide cutting edge knowledge supporting a new national imperative to eliminate race, gender, disability, and sexual orientation-based disciplinary disparities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Russell J. Skiba is Professor in School Psychology and Director of the Equity Project at Indiana University, USA. He is among the most cited researchers in the nation on racial and ethnic disparities in school discipline. In addition to numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, he has consulted with numerous states and districts on school discipline, school violence, and reducing disparities.
Kavitha Mediratta is Chief Strategy Advisor for Equity Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies. She is a national leader in reforming zero tolerance school discipline and improving educational systems. In addition to publications on those topics, she has authored numerous publications and book chapters on community organizing and grassroots activism for public education reform.
M. Karega Rausch is Adjunct Faculty member at Indiana University, USA. He has authored or co-authored more than twenty professional publications with an emphasis on racial/ethnic disproportionality in school discipline and special education. He is also a sought after speaker and expert in charter school accountability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inequality in School Discipline
Book Subtitle: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities
Editors: Russell J. Skiba, Kavitha Mediratta, M. Karega Rausch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51257-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51256-7Published: 21 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51257-4Published: 20 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 285
Topics: Educational Psychology, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Crime and Society, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Gender Studies