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Turning To Each Other Not On Each Other: How School Communities Prevent Racial Bias in School Discipline

by Susan Sandler and the Justice Matters Institute Discipline Task Force
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.

Published 2000

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