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Suspended education : school punishment and the legacy of racial injustice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kupchik, Aaron.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School discipline--Social aspects--United States.
- School discipline.
- Student suspension--Social aspects--United States.
- Student suspension.
- Discrimination in education--United States.
- Discrimination in education.
- School integration--United States--History--20th century.
- School integration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations, map
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Suspended Education helps explain why schools turn to punishments like suspensions so often, despite being ineffective and even harmful; this problem is a legacy of resistance to racial desegregation of schools during the Civil Rights Era"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : racial inequality and school punishment
- "They just want the Blacks out of school" : punishment after desegregation
- The legacy of racial injustice : historic resistance to desegregation and contemporary suspension rates / with Felicia Henry
- Separate and unequal : Delaware before desegregation
- An issue on day one : Delaware after desegregation
- The cradle of liberty? : Boston before desegregation
- Unprepared : Boston after desegregation
- Conclusion : what is past Isn't past
- Appendix: Methods and detailed quantitative results.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781479821136
- 1479821136
- OCLC:
- 1496393338
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