Students who attend schools with higher suspension rates are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated as adults and less likely to attend a 4-year college¶

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q2 i? Attending a school with higher suspension rates predicts a 15–20 percent higher likelihood of adult arrest and incarceration and lower 4-year college attendance, with male students and students of color most impacted. → Trout 2022

Evidence¶

Trout 2022¶

Trout, L., Pate, C., Wu, K., & McKenna, J. (2022). Reimagining school safety: A guide for schools and communities. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED628885

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The guide reports, citing Bacher-Hicks et al. (2019), that "students who attend schools with higher suspension rates are 15–20 percent more likely to be arrested and incarcerated as adults" and less likely to attend a 4-year college. No effect size or sample details are printed in the guide.

"research shows that students who attend schools with higher suspension rates are 15–20 percent more likely to be arrested and incarcerated as adults and are also less likely to attend a 4-year college, with male students and students of color being most impacted (Bacher-Hicks et al., 2019)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Students with low prior test scores and students with disabilities were suspended at substantially higher rates than their peers in CPS — 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
• 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
• Arrest rates for CPS students declined after 2009-10, with African American boys arrested at twice the district average rate — 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
• Out-of-school suspension rates in CPS high schools declined each year from 24 percent in 2009-10 to 16 percent in 2013-14 — related
• Most high school suspensions in CPS resulted from student defiance and rule violations rather than physical conflict — related
• Student perceptions of safety and teacher perceptions of order improved in CPS high schools during the same period that OSS rates declined — related
• Attending schools with higher suspension rates predicts future interaction with the criminal legal system — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Students of color benefit academically and behaviorally from having teachers of the same race. — related
• Early childhood education attendance is associated with decreased high school disciplinary measures including juvenile incarceration compared to similar non-attending children — related