“Figuring out how to appropriately discipline students at highest risk for academic failure should be a part of discussion about educational reform.”
“New research shows that sending kids home from school as punishment may do more harm than good.”
“As Pamela Fenning and her colleagues noted in the April 2012 Journal of School Violence, most school districts continue to use out-of-school suspensions even for minor disciplinary issues even though they tend to actually exacerbate problem behaviors and also may lead to academic problems. Further, out-of-school suspensions are not fairly applied with minority youth being assigned punitive suspensions at greater rates than non-minority youth according to a 2012 report by the US Department of Education.
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