K-12 Racial Disparities in School Discipline
Parent: The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for July through October, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2t36g571 | Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap? | 619 | 342 | 277 | 55.3% |
| 3g36n0c3 | Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School | 527 | 350 | 177 | 66.4% |
| 7hm2456z | Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn | 406 | 228 | 178 | 56.2% |
| 8pd0s08z | Out of School and Off Track: The Overuse of Suspensions in American Middle and High Schools | 391 | 206 | 185 | 52.7% |
| 85m2m6sj | The High Cost Of Harsh Discipline And Its Disparate Impact | 379 | 130 | 249 | 34.3% |
| 8fh0s5dv | Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis | 360 | 120 | 240 | 33.3% |
| 9d19p8wt | The Striking Outlier: The Persistent, Painful and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools | 349 | 105 | 244 | 30.1% |
| 0d4807x3 | Racial Disparities in School Suspension and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | 312 | 91 | 221 | 29.2% |
| 65x5j31h | Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Review | 274 | 80 | 194 | 29.2% |
| 6kw7w8s8 | Dignity, Disparity and Desistance: Effective Restorative Justice Strategies to Plug the "School-to-Prison Pipeline" | 249 | 75 | 174 | 30.1% |
| 8fb9x11w | The Costs of High School Failure and School Suspensions for the State of California | 236 | 54 | 182 | 22.9% |
| 0x36s2wf | The Hidden Cost of California's Harsh School Discipline | 203 | 47 | 156 | 23.2% |
| 7zc0c135 | The Economic Effects of Exclusionary Discipline on Grade Retention and High School Dropout | 203 | 65 | 138 | 32.0% |
| 1x66c4n2 | Is California Doing Enough to Close the School Discipline Gap? | 202 | 88 | 114 | 43.6% |
| 8mv1z75k | Reconsidering the Alternatives: The Relationship between Suspension, Disciplinary Alternative School Placement, Subsequent Juvenile Detention, and the Salience of Race | 201 | 60 | 141 | 29.9% |
| 4pw0d5n8 | Misbehavior, Suspensions, and Security Measures in High School: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences | 200 | 71 | 129 | 35.5% |
| 2mx8c60x | What Conditions Jeopardize and Support Safety in Urban Schools? The Influence of Community Characteristics, School Composition and School Organizational Practices on Student and Teacher Reports of Safety in Chicago | 181 | 50 | 131 | 27.6% |
| 99v051v1 | Opportunities Suspended: The Devastating Consequences of Zero Tolerance and School Discipline | 176 | 64 | 112 | 36.4% |
| 5wh4x276 | Lost Instruction: The Disparate Impact of the School Discipline Gap in California | 162 | 65 | 97 | 40.1% |
| 7td9r8gq | Lost Instruction Time in California Schools: The Disparate Harm from Post-Pandemic Punitive Suspensions | 161 | 89 | 72 | 55.3% |
| 35z7c5sh | The Effectiveness of School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports for Reducing Racially Inequitable Disciplinary Exclusions in Middle Schools | 151 | 57 | 94 | 37.7% |
| 9dh9k3bq | Where Should We Intervene? Contributions of Behavior, Student, and School Characteristics to Suspension and Expulsion | 147 | 57 | 90 | 38.8% |
| 9rw655w8 | Disturbing Inequities: Exploring the Relationship Between Racial Disparities in Special Education Identification and Discipline | 147 | 72 | 75 | 49.0% |
| 18h2929c | Student Threat Assessment as a Method of Reducing Student Suspensions | 140 | 42 | 98 | 30.0% |
| 50b4g9h1 | The Unequal Impact of Suspension on the Opportunity to Learn in CA | 138 | 30 | 108 | 21.7% |
| 9148d09q | Suspended Education in California | 135 | 57 | 78 | 42.2% |
| 0c39d30h | Researchers Responses to Critiques of Our Study, "Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Report." | 115 | 32 | 83 | 27.8% |
| 2x35t1tf | Discipline and Participation: The Long-Term Effects of Suspension and School Security on the Political and Civic Engagement of Youth | 115 | 25 | 90 | 21.7% |
| 65w0k9tm | Closing the School Discipline Gap in California: Signs of Progress | 113 | 20 | 93 | 17.7% |
| 6n84676s | Reducing Suspension among Academically Disengaged Black Males | 107 | 17 | 90 | 15.9% |
| 8cj0n19m | The Economic Burden of High School Dropouts and School Suspensions in Florida | 106 | 64 | 42 | 60.4% |
| 8kr718bx | Unmasking School Discipline Disparities in California: What the 2019-2020 Data Can Tell Us About Problems and Progress | 105 | 37 | 68 | 35.2% |
| 46c8z6z2 | A Mixed Methods Approach Examining Disproportionality in School Discipline | 104 | 30 | 74 | 28.8% |
| 7xv434vq | Update to Lost Instruction Time in California Schools | 102 | 34 | 68 | 33.3% |
| 5437259j | Nationwide Survey of State Education Agencies’ Online School Disciplinary Data | 101 | 16 | 85 | 15.8% |
| 0wq1s982 | Nationwide Survey of State Education Agencies’ Online School Disciplinary Data for Students with Disabilities | 96 | 21 | 75 | 21.9% |
| 4sq993qd | Sent Home and Put Off-Track: The Antecedents, Disproportionalities, and Consequences of Being Suspended in the Ninth Grade | 96 | 26 | 70 | 27.1% |
| 2pw440h5 | Disabling Inequity: The Urgent Need for Race-Conscious Resource Remedies | 85 | 0 | 85 | 0.0% |
| 8855x4xk | Examining Disproportionality in School Discipline Practices for Native American Students in Canadian Schools Implementing PBIS | 84 | 17 | 67 | 20.2% |
| 3687h8gz | Keeping California's Kids in School | 81 | 14 | 67 | 17.3% |
| 2d18x1jb | Making Education Work for Latinas in the U.S. | 76 | 21 | 55 | 27.6% |
| 7wc935jg | Towards Identifying School-level Factors Reducing Disciplinary Exclusions of American Indian/Alaska Native Students | 51 | 10 | 41 | 19.6% |
| 4tx3p7tk | Suspended Education in Massachusetts: Using Days of Lost Instruction Due to Suspension to Evaluate Our Schools | 37 | 0 | 37 | 0.0% |
| 2qw5d0rg | Avoid Simple Solutions and Quick Fixes: Lessons Learned from a Comprehensive Districtwide Approach to Improving Conditions for Learning | 35 | 0 | 35 | 0.0% |
| 80x0r63x | The Promise of a Teacher Professional Development Program in Reducing the Racial Disparity in Classroom Exclusionary Discipline | 28 | 0 | 28 | 0.0% |
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