A subset of about a quarter of Chicago high schools and 10 percent of middle-grades schools have very high suspension rates, almost all predominantly serving African-American students¶
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q2 i? About a quarter of high schools and 10 percent of schools with middle grades have very high suspension rates, and almost all predominantly serve African-American students from the poorest neighborhoods with the lowest incoming achievement. → Sartain 2015
Evidence¶
Sartain 2015¶
Sartain, L., Allensworth, E., & Porter, S. (2015). Suspending Chicago's Students: Differences in Discipline Practices across Schools. UChicago Consortium. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/suspending-chicagos-students-differences-discipline-practices-across-schools
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Observational analysis of Chicago district discipline data. The report identifies a subset of schools with very high suspension rates serving predominantly African-American students from the poorest neighborhoods; at high-suspending high schools, about half of students received a suspension in the 2013-14 school year.
"A subset of Chicago schools—about a quarter of high schools and 10 percent of schools with middle grades— have very high suspension rates, and almost all of these schools predominantly serve African-American students."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
Related Claims¶
- Students with a history of abuse or neglect are at particularly high risk of suspension, with almost a third suspended in 2013-14 — related
- African American boys received out-of-school suspensions at five times the rate of white/Asian boys in CPS high schools in 2013-14 — related
- Most high school suspensions in CPS resulted from student defiance and rule violations rather than physical conflict — related
- In-school suspension rates nearly doubled for African American high school students between 2008-09 and 2013-14 while remaining steady for other groups — related
- At racially/ethnically diverse schools, African American boys are suspended at about 13 percentage points higher rates than other students in the same school — related
- School climate improved in predominantly Black schools but declined in predominantly Latino and racially diverse schools as suspension use for severe infractions fell — related
- Schools with high suspension rates are less safe than schools with lower suspension rates serving similar students — related
- Black and poor students are suspended from US schools at higher rates than White and nonpoor students — related
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A subset of about a quarter of Chicago high schools and 10 percent of middle-grades schools have very high suspension rates, almost all predominantly serving African-American students |
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A subset of about a quarter of Chicago high schools and 10 percent of middle-grades schools have very high suspension rates, almost all predominantly serving African-American students |
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