“Closing the School Discipline Gap can make an enormous difference in reducing disciplinary exclusions across the country. This book not only exposes unsound practices and their disparate impact on the historically disadvantaged, but provides educators, policymakers, and community advocates with an array of remedies that are proven effective or hold great promise. Educators, communities, and students alike can benefit from the promising interventions and well-grounded recommendations.”
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University
Closing the School Discipline Gap, published by Teachers College Press, is a call for action in an area where public schools can and should make powerful improvements, in a relatively short period of time.
Book Features:
- Shows the academic and social costs of excessive disciplinary exclusion.
- Examines school policies and practices that lead generations of African-American and Latino youth into the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Offers evidence-based interventions for reducing excessive and disparate out-of-school suspensions.
- Connects research to real changes that can be made to federal, state, and district policies.
Contributors include: Robert Balfanz, Jamilia Blake, Dewey Cornell, Jeremy D. Finn, Thalia González, Anne Gregory, Daniel J. Losen, David M. Osher, Russell J. Skiba, Ivory A. Toldson
Closing the School Discipline Gap: Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion may be purchased from the Civil Rights Project or at Teachers College Press.
About the Center for Civil Rights Remedies
The Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR) was an initiative at the UCLA Civil Rights Project that began in the summer of 2011. It was dedicated to improving educational opportunities and outcomes for children from subgroups who have been discriminated against historically due to their race/ethnicity, and who are frequently subjected to exclusionary practices such as disciplinary removal, over-representation in special education, and reduced access to a college-bound curriculum. Projects were supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and The California Endowment and carried out in collaboration with several partner organizations.
