Students with Disabilities and Suspension Rates: A Cautionary Tale for School Districts (Article)
The authors examined the relationship among K-12 students and their attendance rates with a focus on EL students, students living in poverty, suspension rates and students with disabilities.
Citation/Source
Forman, K., & Markson, C. (2022). Students with Disabilities and Suspension Rates: A Cautionary Tale for School Districts. Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 21(1), 20–24
Publication Date 2024
The Dimensions of School Discipline: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Measuring Discipline Patterns and Outcomes in Schools (Article)
The authors present a comprehnsive analytic framework for examining school discipline patterns in New York City Schools. The authors used school level metrics and ascertained that Black students received the most suspensions and received suspensions at a different rate for the same infractions as their peers.
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Rodriguez, L. A., & Welsh, R. O. (2022). The Dimensions of School Discipline: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Measuring Discipline Patterns and Outcomes in Schools. AERA Open, 8(1).
Publication Date 2024
Using an Embedded Mixed Methods Design to Assess and Improve Intervention Acceptability of an Equity-Focused Intervention: A Methodological Demonstration (Article)
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Bastable, E., Meng, P., Falcon, S. F., & McIntosh, K. (2023). Using an Embedded Mixed Methods Design to Assess and Improve Intervention Acceptability of an Equity-Focused Intervention: A Methodological Demonstration. Behavioral Disorders, 48(3), 201–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/0198742919880486
Publication Date 2024
Through MTSS, Empathic Discipline Program Can Mitigate Racial Disparities in Suspension Rates (Website)
This brief includes an empathic discipline program: an intervention for teachers that is designed to mitigate the consequences of bias on their students’ education outcomes with a focus on exclusionary discipline. Researchers tested whether the empathic discipline program could be implemented through MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support) networks in a large and diverse school district and whether it could mitigate yearlong suspension rates.
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Okonofua, J. and Semko, S. (2023) Through MTSS, Empathic Discipline Program Can Mitigate Racial Disparities in Suspension Rates. California MTSS Research Consortium, UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. Accessed September 5, 2023.
Publication Date 2024
Department of Education Calls on Schools to Limit Suspensions of Students with Disabilities (Article)
The author offers an overview of the impact of suspensions on students with disabilities, particulaly African American students and male students.
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Williams, V. C. (2023). Department of Education Calls on Schools to Limit Suspensions of Students with Disabilities. Exceptional Parent, 53(2), 8–9.
Publication Date 2024
