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Parris, Leandra; Sabnis, Sujay; Shriberg, David; Sullivan, Amanda L.; Proctor, Sherrie L.; Savage, Todd – Communique, 2019
Social justice has been defined as fair and equitable distribution of resources, rights, representation, and treatment for marginalized people who do not possess equal power in society (Linnemeyer, Nilsson, Marszalek, & Khan, 2018). As a theoretical concept, social justice is an emergent area of inquiry in school psychology (Johnson, Bahr,…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Social Justice, Power Structure, Disadvantaged
Rollenhagen, Jennifer; Goodman, Steve; Barnes, Aaron C. – Communique, 2017
Decades of research show that exclusionary discipline practices (e.g., office discipline referrals, suspensions) are disproportionately applied for specific racial groups. Losen and Skiba (2010) found that African American students are three times more likely to be suspended as their White peers. Although the problem of disciplinary inequity is…
Descriptors: Discipline, Disproportionate Representation, Racial Distribution, Racial Bias