This Policy Brief discusses the negative
impact of school exclusion in Virginia and makes recommendations for making our schools safer, stronger, and more conducive to learning for all students.
Not exact matches
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of «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate
Impact of Disciplinary
Exclusion From
School,» by Daniel Losen and Jon Gillespie, please click here.
(Los Angeles, CA) Today, the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles issued «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate
Impact of Disciplinary
Exclusion From
School,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government suspension - related data from the 2009 - 10 school year for grades K
School,» a nationwide report based on an analysis
of Federal government suspension - related data from the 2009 - 10
school year for grades K
school year for grades K - 12.
Source: «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate
Impact of Disciplinary
Exclusion from
School.»
But the new study, «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate
Impact of Disciplinary
Exclusion from
School,» is different for two primary reasons.
Read full article «Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate
Impact of Disciplinary
Exclusion from
School»
Daniel J. Losen and Jonathan Gillespie, Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate
Impact of Disciplinary
Exclusion from
School
Opportunities suspended: The disparate
impact of disciplinary
exclusion from
school.
That inquiry heard that fixing the system doesn't in any way address the social conditions
of poverty and social
exclusion, inadequate housing and homelessness, addictions and FASD and the residual
impacts of colonization and the residential
schools system.
This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite
of targeted interventions that span a number
of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate
of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy
of past practices
of exclusion of Aboriginal children from
schools, and its
impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance
of attending
school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and
school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.
Multi-variable regression models were used to examine the
impact of individual factors on
exclusion from
school or psychological distress.