Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Improving School Discipline
The White House is holding a summit today to look at how we deal with kids with behavior problems. According to the Department of Education, more than 3 million students are suspended or expelled each year, and non-white, disabled and LGBT students are suspended at much higher rates than white kids.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe White House is holding a summit today to look at how we deal with kids with behavior problems. According to the Department of Education, more than 3 million students are suspended or expelled each year, and non-white, disabled and LGBT students are suspended at much higher rates than white kids. That’s a problem because research has shown that taking students out of class or kicking them out of school feeds into the so-called “school to prison” pipeline. What’s a better way to deal with troubled kids?
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The full episode
1 of 5School Discipline, Bias in the Justice System, and Political Crowds-For-Hire- 0:00Improving School DisciplineYou’re reading this
- 9:35Changes to No Child Left Behind
- 19:29Teen Pregnancy on the Decline
- 28:37Unconscious Bias in the Justice System
- 41:59Political Crowds-For-Hire