Racial Bias Associated with Disparities in Disciplinary Action Across US Schools (IMAGE)

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Racial Bias Associated with Disparities in Disciplinary Action Across US Schools

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Using federal data covering 32 million students across 96,000 K-12 schools, researchers at Princeton University investigated the degree to which racial disparities in disciplinary action across the United States relates to county-level measures of racial bias.

After pairing two different sets of data -- one on racial bias and another on disciplinary reports in schools -- the researchers show that black students experienced higher rates of suspension, expulsion, in-school arrests and law enforcement referrals than whites. This gap was larger in counties with more racial bias.

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Egan Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

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