School discipline causes lasting, harmful impact on Black students, study finds
School discipline causes lasting, harmful impact on Black students, study finds
- February 9, 2022
- Andrew Penner and Miles Davison, sociology, Daily Pilot, Feb. 9, 2022
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High school students who are suspended or expelled are more than twice as likely to be charged or convicted of a crime and incarcerated as a young adult, according to a recent UC Irvine study …. “Schools should be about enabling students to thrive,” said sociology professor Andrew Penner, a co-author of the study. “There’s nothing about the logic of punishment and incapacitation that helps prepare students to thrive.”
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