The Punishment Gap: School Suspension and Racial Disparities in Achievement

While scholars have studied the racial "achievement gap" for several decades, the mechanisms that produce this gap remain unclear. In this article, we propose that school discipline is a crucial, but under-examined, factor in achievement differences by race. Using a large hierarchical and...

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Academic achievement gaps
Black white differences
Black white relations
Discipline
Educational attainment
Ethnicity
Hierarchies
Hispanics
Intellectuals
Mathematical growth
Minority group students
Punishment
Race
Racial differences
Racial inequality
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School records
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Student discipline
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Suspension
Test scores
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