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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Black students are more likely to be punished with suspensions, expulsions or referrals to law enforcement, a phenomenon that helps funnel kids into the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, white kids are more likely to be pushed into special education services or receive medical and psychological treatment for their perceived misbehaviors, according to a study released last week in the journal Sociology of Education."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racial-disparities-american-schools_55b67572e4b0074ba5a576c1

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/ps-swh072215.php

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The actual paper is behind a paywall, but from the abstract, it seems to me that the study did not look at kids' discipline by race, but rather schools' and school districts' discipline by racial, ethnic, and economic composition.

[i]In this article, the author examines how school- and district-level racial/ethnic and socioeconomic compositions influence schools’ use of different types of criminalized and medicalized school discipline. Using a large data set containing information on over 60,000 schools in over 6,000 districts, the authors uses multilevel modeling and a group-mean modeling strategy to answer several important questions about school discipline. First, how do school- and district-level racial and ethnic compositions influence criminalized school discipline and medicalization? Second, how do levels of school and district economic disadvantage influence criminalized school discipline and medicalization? Third, how does district-level economic disadvantage moderate the relationship between school racial/ethnic composition and criminalized school discipline and medicalization? The results generally support hypotheses that schools and districts with relatively larger minority and poor populations are more likely to implement criminalized disciplinary policies, including suspensions and expulsion or police referrals or arrests, and less likely to medicalize students through behavioral plans put in place through laws such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. However, results from cross-level interaction models suggest that district-level economic disadvantage moderates the influence of school racial composition on criminalized school discipline and medicalization. [/i]http://soe.sagepub.com/content/88/3/181[/quote]

OP here: thanks for the fact check. Doesn't diminish the point or issue. There are more than enough studies that back it up. Also, the treatment spreads from the education system to the justice system since blacks get longer sentences than whites for similar offenses.

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