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Reaching Black Boys
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) had the highest suspension rate out of the country's 10 largest school districts. Many of those suspended were young black men. This came at a time when Arne Duncan, CEO of CPS, said he aimed to close the achievement gap. Depriving black students of valuable class time due to suspensions seemed contradictory to the goal.
Tags: CPS; Chicago; Schools; black; arne duncan; suspension; classroom; expulsion; achievement gap; role models; african; school district;
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Suspensions and Expulsions: Minority students face harsher discipline
The author analyzed student discipline and demographic records from the state of Illinois and found that minority students are disproportionately expelled and suspended. Jenco interviewed various experts, teachers and students to try and make sense of the situation.
Tags: education; school; high school; students; discipline; local government; teachers
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Suspensions Up in CPS
This analysis found that Chicago elementary schools are cracking down on discipline problems by suspending more and more students, most of them African-American.
Tags: Chicago public schools; incident reports; school board; expulsions; education; suspension.
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Kicked out of kindergarten: the discipline dilemma
Mrozowski and Byczkowski check into suspensions of kindergartners throughout Ohio, based on school district. Behavior problems in schools have gotten so bad that even kindergartners are getting kicked out. The article focuses on whether or not the region is becoming overly strict when it comes to discipline.
Tags: kindergarten; school expulsion; school suspension; school discipline
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Hard Time: Dealing with Troubled Youth
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported "how our community responds when children and teenagers get into trouble. It found overcrowding in detention homes and correctional centers, a lack of alternative programs and above average rates of incarceration despite below average juvenile crime rates."
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Arkan: Wanted and the hitman
CNN looks at the rise of Arkan from international thief, Yugoslav government hitman and formenter of nationalism to a paramilitary leader responsible for carrying out a madness of murder, torture, expulsion and looting in many of the ethnic cleansing campaigns in the war that wrecked Yugoslavia.
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KPTV-TV (Portland, Ore.) airs series on the poor quality of education black children receive compared to whites in Portland schools; finds wrongful assignments to special education classes, higher expulsion rate, lower grade-point averages, Feb. 23 - 27, 1987.