Black Girls and School Discipline: Four Researchers Unpack K-12's Racial Bias (Videos)
Most of the discussion around the disproportionality of black students鈥� suspension or expulsion from K-12 schools has focused on boys. Only more recently have researchers begun to surface the numbers of black girls who are subject to severe disciplinary measures in schools, including by school resource officers.
According to federal data, black girls are suspended from school at a rate that is six times higher than that of their white female peers. In New York City and Boston, black girls represented 56 percent and 61 percent, respectively, of all girls disciplined in those cities鈥� K-12 schools, even as incidents of discipline against black girls go underreported. Black girls receive harsher criminal sentences than their white female peers do in the juvenile-justice system, and they also represent its fastest-growing population.
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For this special Commentary package, 澳门跑狗论坛 Commentary sat down with researchers Adrienne D. Dixson, Shaun R. Harper, Bettina L. Love, and Terri N. Watson at this spring鈥檚 American Educational Research Association conference to discuss their perspectives on this crisis.
Filmed by: Deanna Del Ciello, Interviewed by: Elizabeth Rich, Edited by: Erin Irwin
A version of this article appeared in the June 01, 2016 edition of 澳门跑狗论坛 as Black Girls, Discipline, and Schools