Kate Wegmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Kate Wegmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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University of Illinois social work professor Kate Wegmann found in a new study that black middle school students receive fewer warnings from their teachers about misbehavior, giving them fewer opportunities to correct their behavior on their own before the consequences escalate to exclusionary punishments such as office referrals and expulsion.

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