Sentences with phrase «school discipline practices»

Traditional school discipline practices are considered separate from the academic mission of the school.

We were inspired to study school discipline practices to learn about what is working and what is not to reduce discipline disparities.

Awareness that school discipline practices need to change has spread throughout cities, states and the federal government.

Northwestern University's Simone Ispa - Landa, an education sociologist, has been named a 2018 William T. Grant Scholar for her work examining racial inequities in school discipline practices.

This study shows the importance of having federal oversight of school discipline practices particularly when the practices promoted locally contradict what the preponderance of evidence has shown to be bad for kids.

Youth and community organizing efforts have been winning changes to harsh and discriminatory school discipline practices across the country.

The extent to which Uncle Sam should intrude himself into school discipline practices — and the extent to which «disparate impact» should intrude itself into federal civil - rights policies — are hugely important issues, with or without charter schools.

CMOs are working to establish themselves as leaders in developing more holistic school discipline practices across the United States.

As you would expect, Eva Moskowitz didn't take kindly to the clarification issued by PBS yesterday about John Merrow's broadcast on the harsh school discipline practices of her Success Academy collection of charter schools.

In a January 2014 school guidance package, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan stated, «The need to rethink and redesign school discipline practices is long overdue.»

Implementing strategies such as restorative circles, peer mediation, and youth courts as a supportive school discipline practice

That is why this Administration — including through the President's My Brother's Keeper initiative — has made rethinking school discipline practices one of our top K - 12 priorities.

At the summit, E4E - Minnesota unveiled «Ending Racial Discipline Disparities,» an action guide, developed by classroom teachers for classroom teachers, to outline a roadmap for creating positive school discipline practices.

Punitive school discipline practices such as overuse of suspension also can contribute to absenteeism as well as to community distrust of schools.

The initiative aims to support instead school discipline practices that foster safe, inclusive and positive learning environments while keeping students in school.

School climate is also commanding greater national attention under the Every Student Succeeds Act as groups work to include school discipline practices and other measures that can help make new ESSA accountability systems more accurate, robust and reflective of the daily challenges and opportunities in education.

These restorative school discipline practices focus on (re) establishing relationships and repairing harm as opposed to just punishment for misbehavior.

David Hinojosa, J.D., director of the federally - funded IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity, gives an overview of the civil rights protections that are in place, the negative impact of many school discipline practices and points to resources available to schools and teachers.

With this in mind, it is also worth remembering that President Trump recently designated Betsy DeVos as the leader of a new Federal Commission on School Safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's guidance on anti-discriminatory school discipline practices.

These guidance documents specifically concerned school discipline practices and explained how the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States Department of Education (US ED) would be analyzing data and conducting investigations into potentially discriminatory discipline practices by schools and districts.

She took the child's information for use in deflecting from the indefensible school discipline practices in which her institution engages.

They were at the school to speak about the need to address «unnecessary and unfair school discipline practices.»

PROVIDENCE — Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) announced today a $ 1 million, two - year grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited - life foundation, to engage community and school - district partners in four major U.S. cities with the goal of addressing school discipline practices and policies that contribute...

New York Times, 1/16/13 — Top civil rights groups release a new report citing extreme school discipline practices throughout Mississippi, such as school districts that suspend students at nine times the national average, and a school where students were handcuffed for infractions as minor as not wearing belts.

Ricardo Martinez and Manuel Criollo, respectively from Padres y Jóvenes Unidos and The Labor / Community Strategy Center, shared community - based insights on helping youth succeed through smart school discipline practices, at a national juvenile justice symposium for journalists.

As a member of the Miami - Dade County Board of Education, Gallon has worked to increase support for underperforming schools, improve equity in school discipline practices, and expand magnet schools to underserved communities.

Culturally Responsive Classroom Management (CRCM) seeks to provide «all students with equitable opportunities for learning» by minimizing discriminatory school discipline practices that occur when the behaviors of nondominant populations are misinterpreted.

The extent to which Uncle Sam should intrude himself into school discipline practices — and the extent to which «disparate impact» should intrude itself into federal civil - rights policies — are hugely important issues.

Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) parent and student leaders testified to California lawmakers on effective alternatives to harsh school discipline practices.

In Summer 2011, Education Secretary Duncan and Attorney General Holder announced the launch of a collaborative project — the Supportive School Discipline Initiative (Initiative)-- between the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) to support the use of school discipline practices that foster safe, supportive, and productive learning environments while keeping students in school.

«Efforts to find alternative consequences have increased in recent years in an effort to reduce the racial gaps that exist in school discipline practices.

Thus, at the very moment that changing demographics are forcing a rare convergence of education elites, community activists and corporate titans, all keenly focused on closing the minority achievement gap, our school discipline practices are undermining the very children we say we most want to help.

Investments in school districts, Clinton said, will help leaders reform their school discipline practices.

U.S. Representative Bobby Scott, the ranking member on the House education committee said, «Any effort to address school discipline must also consider the deeply rooted inequities, including documented and pervasive racial bias, in school discipline practices that disproportionately harm students of color and contribute to the school - to - prison pipeline.