NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bastable, Eoin; Falcon, Sarah Fairbanks; Nese, Rhonda; Meng, Paul; McIntosh, Kent – Preventing School Failure, 2021
Addressing racial disparities in school discipline is an urgent and widespread issue facing US schools. One approach to improve racial equity in school discipline practice is to enhance the contextual fit of empirically validated schoolwide practices. Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) is a widely implemented and…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Racial Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Discipline
McIntosh, Kent; Smolkowski, Keith; Gion, Cody M.; Witherspoon, Lauren; Bastable, Eoin; Girvan, Erik J. – Educational Researcher, 2020
One commonly used strategy used in attempts to decrease racial disproportionality in school discipline across the country is sharing data with school administrators that discipline disparities are a problem in their schools with the assumption that it will increase attention to equity and improve outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Discipline, Reports, Racial Bias
McIntosh, Kent; Smolkowski, Keith; Gion, Cody M.; Witherspoon, Lauren; Bastable, Eoin; Girvan, Erik J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
One commonly-used strategy used in attempts to decrease racial disproportionality in school discipline across the country is sharing data with school administrators that discipline disparities are a problem in their schools, with the assumption that it will increase attention to equity and improve outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Discipline, Reports, Racial Bias
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Girvan, Erik J.; McIntosh, Kent; Santiago-Rosario, Maria R. – School Psychology Review, 2021
This study examined the extent to which disparities in Black and White students' risks of receiving office discipline referrals (ODRs), and out-of-school suspensions (OSSs) were related to differences in implicit and explicit racial biases assessed at the community level. The sample consisted of discipline records for 1,354,010 students enrolled…
Descriptors: Correlation, Racial Bias, Community Attitudes, Suspension
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Bastable, Eoin; Fairbanks Falcon, Sarah; Nese, Rhonda; Meng, Paul; McIntosh, Kent – Grantee Submission, 2019
Addressing racial disparities in school discipline is an urgent and widespread issue facing U.S. schools. One approach to improve racial equity in school discipline practice is to enhance the contextual fit of empirically validated school-wide practices. School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) is a widely implemented…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Racial Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Discipline
Bastable, Eoin; McIntosh, Kent; Fairbanks Falcon, Sarah; Meng, Paul – Grantee Submission, 2021
As interventions show promise for reducing school discipline disparities, it is important to understand what variables increase educators' commitment toward addressing racial equity in schools. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 15 educators asked to describe pivotal events that shifted their own or others' active…
Descriptors: Discipline, Student Behavior, Racial Bias, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
McIntosh, Kent; Girvan, Erik J.; Horner, Robert H.; Smolkowski, Keith – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
Extension of retribution- and incapacitation-based criminal justice policies and practices to schools has exacerbated racial and ethnic disproportionality in school discipline, a serious and unsolved threat to equity in education and social opportunity. Common approaches implemented to reduce discipline disproportionality have not been shown to be…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Disproportionate Representation