Discipline Disparities Among Students With Disabilities: Creating Equitable Environments

This book explores the disproportionate school discipline and school-based arrests of students with disabilities, particularly those who identify as Black or Native American. It offers practical changes to research, practice, and policy to remedy the problem and presents an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on DisCrit to explore the intersection of race and ethnicity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2023
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

The book begins with a DisCrit and research-based perspective,setting the stage for the chapters that follow. The chapters that follow offer promising practices and approaches to reduce the inequitable use of school discipline and increase the use of evidence-supported alternatives to prevent and respond to behaviors of students with disabilities. The final chapter recommends future research,policy,legal,and practice goals,suggesting an agenda for moving the field forward in years to come.
The decades-long problem of disproportionate school discipline and school-based arrests of students with disabilities, particularly those who also identify as Black or Native American, is explored in this authoritative book. A team of interdisciplinary scholars, attorneys, and education practitioners focus on how disparities based on disability intersect with race and ethnicity, why such disparities occur, and the impacts these disparities have over time. A DisCrit and research-based perspective frames key issues at the beginning of the book, and the chapters that follow suggest promising practices and approaches to reduce the inequitable use of school discipline and increase the use of evidence-supported alternatives to prevent and respond to behaviors of students with disabilities. The final chapter recommends future research, policy, legal, and practice goals, suggesting an agenda for moving the field forward in years to come.

The book features an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the expertise of scholars, attorneys, and educational practitioners to address the issues from a variety of perspectives. It draws on DisCrit (Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory) to explore the intersection of race and ethnicity, particularly among students who are Black or from a Native American background and are considered "disabled."

The book begins with a DisCrit and research-based perspective, setting the stage for the chapters that follow. The chapters that follow offer promising practices and approaches to reduce the inequitable use of school discipline and increase the use of evidence-supported alternatives to prevent and respond to behaviors of students with disabilities.

The final chapter recommends future research, policy, legal, and practice goals, suggesting an agenda for moving the field forward in years to come.

Weight: 242g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807766439