Closing the School Discipline Gap: Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion

by Daniel J. Losen

Book Overview

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 today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes. Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080775613X
• ISBN13: 9780807756133
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"