discipline gap

Research shows black students receive harsher discipline than their white counterparts. They are more likely to be suspended and expelled from school,…

Michigan is on yet another list of dubious distinction. This time, the state has some of the highest rates of school suspensions in the country. A…

We've talked about it before, but it's worth repeating: There is a major gap in the way we discipline children in schools. This New York Times piece…

The school-to-prison pipeline is a nationwide pattern of students being pushed out of schools and into the criminal justice system.Groups like the ACLU…

In March of last year, 9th grader Kyle Thompson and his science teacher got into a tug-of-war with a sheet of paper, a “hit list,” that he had written.…

It's hard to decide how to process the recent spate of kids-going-to-jail-for-doing-things-kids-do stories.Over the past week or so, outrage has swelled…

When I told people I was working on this special, one hour show about race, a lot of the reactions were along the lines of “race…hmm….interesting.” Like,…

We're starting to look into why certain kids are getting suspended from school more often than others, namely African-Americans, Latinos, students with…