Race and Pushout

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Analysis Finds Dramatic Spike in NYC Suspensions: Black Children and Students with Special Needs Most Affected (Document)

The number of student suspensions in New York City public schools spiked dramatically over the past decade while the length of suspensions grew longer – a phenomenon disproportionally affecting black students and students with disabilities, according to a report released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Student Safety Coalition that analyzes 10 years of previously undis

Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis (2010) (Document)

Middle schools across the country are suspending children with alarming frequency, particularly in some large urban school districts, where often schools were found to have suspended a third or more of their black male students in a given year.The study found that African-American children are suspended far more frequently than white children in general, with especially high racial differences in

The Dropout/Graduation Crisis Among American Indian and Alaska Native Students (2010) (Document)

This paper examines the graduation/dropout crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students using data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Data from 2005 is drawn from the seven states with the highest percentage of American Indian and Alaska Native students as well as five states in the Pacific and Northwestern regions of the United States.

Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Fact Sheet (Document)

The Children’s Defense Fund’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign is a national and community crusade to engage families, youth, communities and policy makers in the development of healthy, safe and educated children. Poverty, racial disparities and a culture of punishment rather than prevention and early intervention are key forces driving the Pipeline.

Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis (2004) (Document)

This article asserts that the federally reported dropout statistics provide a false picture of high school graduation rates, and utilizes the Cumulative Promotion Index developed by The Urban Institute to provide more accurate information on graduation rates.

Student-Led Solutions to the Nation's Dropout Crisis (Document)

The state of the dropout crisis in America is well known and documented.

The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment (2000) (Document)

This paper discusses the results of a study of the disproportionate referral of minority students in Indiana schools. After examining the disciplinary records of all 11,001 students in 19 Indiana middle schools, the authors found that African-American students are disciplined more frequently and harshly for less serious, more subjective reasons, even when controlling for socioeconomic status.