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Thompson, Winston C.; Beneke, Abigail J.; Mitchell, Garry S. – Theory and Research in Education, 2020
In the present unjust context of US schools, many educators face uncertainty about the legitimacy of their issuing punishments, especially when their identity meaningfully differs from that of their students. In this article, we address these doubts by acknowledging distinctive elements of schools to provide helpful distinctions and analyses of…
Descriptors: Justice, Identification (Psychology), Punishment, Equal Education
Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2024
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a mandatory survey of all public schools and school districts in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It gathers information about student access to educational programs, activities, staff, and school climate factors from public schools serving students in preschool…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Public Schools, Access to Education, Educational Environment
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Center for Learner Equity, 2021
The purpose of this document is to provide information on the calculations and data from the 2017-2018 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) that were used to assess the findings in the related thematic briefs. Using the 2017-18 CRDC data, variables were selected to observe the enrollment and experiences of students with disabilities in different…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Charter Schools, Traditional Schools
Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Font, Sarah A. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2016
School corporal punishment is currently legal in 19 states, and over 160,000 children in these states are subject to corporal punishment in schools each year. Given that the use of school corporal punishment is heavily concentrated in Southern states, and that the federal government has not included corporal punishment in its recent initiatives…
Descriptors: Punishment, Public Schools, Incidence, State Policy
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Northington, Cynthia – Multicultural Perspectives, 2007
Corporal punishment is still legal under various circumstances in the United States public schools. This practice is specified in the discipline policies of cities and towns in roughly twenty-two states. Corporal punishment usually takes the form of paddling with wooden paddles or sticks by school administrators with the consent of the parents.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Punishment, Discipline Policy, White Students