Racial Disparities Of Black Students - 1542 Words

For decades there has been research conducted on the racial disproportion of black student’s suspension in schools compared to white students (Skiba et al., 2000; Skiba et al., 2002; Wald and Losen, 2003; Welsh and Payne, 2010; Kinsler, 2011; Wright et al., 2014). Recently, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (2014) study revealed that black students were three times more likely to be suspend and 3.5 times more likely than their white peers to be expelled. In the studies conducted, racial gaps in suspension rates are persistently found and still remains a significant unknown when using different analytical strategies and methodologies (Wright et al. 2014). It is important to note that no studies have yet been able to account for the different variables that contributes to the racial disparity in school discipline. A deeper investigation of past and present research literature is useful in the determining variables that may contribute to the racial gap in school suspensions and its purposed channel in the school to prison pipeline. Some earlier researcher’s suggestions have been socioeconomic factors, the lower academic performance of black students, the difference in behavioral problems, or the lower academic expectations of black students from teachers to support the racial gap in suspension (Magnuson and Waldfogel, 2005; McCarthy and Hoge, 1987; Tenenbaum and Ruck, 2007). Even in studies that attempted to control for social economic status and differentialShow MoreRelatedRacial Inequality And Its Effects On A Student s Development850 Words   |  4 Pagesor at the poverty line, 21% of Hispanics, 22% of Blacks and 25% of Native Americans. (Museus, Ledesma, Parker, 2015). 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