The Achievement Gap and Discrimination

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Francis Pearman: School discipline has been characterized in one way shape or form as exclusionary. In school suspension could take the form of sending a student out of a classroom and into a separate classroom, he says. There's also sort of this increasing presence of law enforcement in schools that have a number of related disciplinary outcomes for interest to students according to Pearman.

This Juneteenth, we’re sharing an episode of The Weeds, a Vox Media podcast where host Jonquilyn Hill breaks down the policies that shape our lives.

This episode digs into school discipline and the achievement gap with Francis Pearman of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. For many Black children, their first encounter with the discrimination that will trail them their whole lives comes from the school system — a system where they are five times more likely to attend a segregated school than their white counterparts.

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