The Impact of Suspension Reforms on Discipline Outcomes: Evidence from California High Schools

Autor/in	Wang, Rui
Titel	The Impact of Suspension Reforms on Discipline Outcomes: Evidence from California High Schools
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 8 (2022) 1, (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wang, Rui)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Minority Group Students; Suspension; Racism; Ethnicity; Disproportionate Representation; Discipline; Student Behavior; Board of Education Policy; High School Students; Program Effectiveness; African American Students; African American Teachers; Educational Environment; Hispanic American Students; White Students; Minority Group Teachers; Racial Composition; Women Faculty; Teacher Characteristics; Educational Attainment; Teacher Student Ratio; Expenditure per Student; Positive Behavior Supports; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausschluss; Schulausschluss; Rassismus; Ethnizität; Disziplin; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Kalifornien
Abstract	Minority students are suspended at a disproportionately higher rate compared with others. To reduce racial suspension gaps, four California school districts banned schools from suspending students for willful defiance, a category consisting of relatively minor disruptive offenses. I evaluate the impact of these policies on high school student discipline outcomes using a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits the temporal variation in the enactment of these policies across school districts. The results suggest that while these policies decreased willful defiance out-of-school suspension rates by around 69%, they did not reduce overall out-of-school suspension rates. In fact, the policies significantly increased out-of-school suspension rates among Black students, particularly in schools with a small share of Black teachers. Taken together, the results suggest that the willful defiance suspension bans failed to address implicit and explicit biases in California schools. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01