The same week that the U.S. Department of Education signaled that the Trump Administration may roll-back Obama-era regulations designed to reduce racial disparities in student discipline (see DeVos’ Team Hears Criticisms of Obama-Era Guidance on Student Discipline and Is DeVos Near Ending School Discipline Reform After Talks on Race, Safety? from The 74), a new study was unveiled showing – you guessed it – evidence of racial bias against African-Americans in school discipline.
Discipline disparities and discrimination in schools is the title of a summary of the research (you can also find a direct link to the study there).
Here’s an excerpt:
Incredibly, many still deny these disparities exist (see We Should Be Obsessed With Racial Equity).
This new study focuses only only on Louisiana (you can find links to research about other areas in the “Obsessed” post).
I also communicated directly on Twitter with one of the other other authors of this new study:
Really good question, and one we hope to answer soon with more data and additional research designs. Generally, researchers find disparities on a number of dimensions. Unclear, however, whether our specific findings on w/in school disparities and fights hold in other locations.
— Andrew McEachin (@ajmceachin) November 21, 2017
Ha, another good question. Soon to researchers is very different than practitioners/reporters. Soon here means in the next year or two. And definitely game for an interview when we have results.
— Andrew McEachin (@ajmceachin) November 21, 2017
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