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Brown, Lionel – Urban Education, 2004
Alarming numbers of students, particularly minority students, are being suspended and expelled from our nation's schools. The surface issue is discipline; however, the underlying issues are literacy and barriers to academic success. To address these issues, a large urban district opened a new school for students who were not succeeding in…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, School Community Programs, Discipline Problems, Academic Achievement