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by Susan Sandler and the Justice Matters Institute
Discipline Task Force
Published 2000
This report is about how school communities
prevent racial bias in school discipline. It profiles schools
across the country that are models of strong communities with
caring discipline approaches and that get excellent results.
The Turning to Each Other study urges us
to take action to address the discipline crisis and communicates
ways that we might begin to do so. The research for this study
began with a national search for "model" schools
that use caring, thoughtful approaches that successfully prevent
racial bias in discipline. A final selection yielded eight
schools from which qualitative information was gathered in
the form of interviews and documents. The study describes
each school and exposes key elements of their success. Distilling
such lessons from model schools begins to create realistic
solutions that will put an end to current unacceptable and
problematic discipline practices.
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