Ep. 63: Dec. 7, 2016: School Suspensions and Teacher Race

Students of color are suspended more often than their white peers, but the rates of suspension and expulsion change when students have a teacher of the same race. That’s what Constance Lindsay and Cassandra Hart found when they analyzed data from North Carolina elementary schools. In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West interviews Lindsay about the study she and Hart published, “Teacher Race and School Discipline,” You can read their study at http://educationnext.org/teacher-race-and-school-discipline-suspensions-research/