Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 11:07
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending children with alarming frequency, particularly in some large urban school districts, where numerous schools suspend a third or more of their black male students in a given year.