Inequality in School Discipline Research and Practice to Reduce Disp
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
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Edited by RUSSELL J. SKIBA, KAVITHA MEDIRATTA, and M. KAREGA RAUSCH
Inequality in School Discipline
Russell J. Skiba • Kavitha Mediratta • M. Karega Rausch Editors
Inequality in School Discipline Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities
Editors Russell J. Skiba Center for Evaluation and Education Policy School of Education Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
M. Karega Rausch Center for Evaluation and Education Policy School of Education Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Kavitha Mediratta The Atlantic Philanthropies New York, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-51256-7 ISBN 978-1-137-51257-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51257-4
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It is to the many individuals and organizations who have dedicated themselves to discovering more effective and socially just practices in education and juvenile justice, and to the children and youth who are the beneficiaries of those efforts, that we dedicate this book.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume grew directly out of the efforts of the Discipline Disparities Research-to-Practice Collaborative, whose members committed three years to meetings, writing, and collaboration in order to identify the critical issues in the field, and commission the research projects that form the heart of this book. The Collaborative was composed of researchers, advocates, educators, policy analysts, juvenile justice representatives, and funders who contributed a disproportionate share of their professional lives to clarifying the issues, acting as review panels for research applications, writing and editing Collaborative publications, and most of all, building a hard-won consensus
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