Educational inequities based on student race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) exists with regards to school discipline. The discipline gap, or tendency for African American and Latino students to be sanctioned more frequently and severely than their white peers, is present in virtually every major school system throughout the United States. African American and Latino students are disciplined at rates that are disproportionately higher than white and Chinese students. The discipline gap, racial and ethnic disparities are present in virtually every major school system across the United States. Because African American students seldom share the cultural frameworks of their teachers, the overrepresentation of Black students on measures of school discipline may, in part, be a function of cultural mismatches in the classroom.
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:23:29 +0000
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