
April 11, 2019
Research from the Sinclair Lab shows that black students in the United States are subject to disciplinary action at rates much higher than their white counterparts.
Findings show that county-level racial biases are associated with black-white disciplinary disparities across 5 different types of disciplinary actions and two disciplinary data collections. The study concludes that racial biases and disciplinary actions go hand-in-hand.
Authors: Travis Riddle and Stacey Sinclair
Publication: Racial disparities in school-based disciplinary actions are associated with county-level rates of racial bias
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