The Importance of Restorative Justice Practices in School Discipline

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Most of what we know about school discipline is in relation to these disciplinary outcomes that are more extreme in nature, right? Like student gets suspended or expelled for some big behavioral offense. There's this whole kind of feature of learning environments that kind of broadly understood is like classroom management practices. The teachers engage in that might not result in a kid getting suspended, but have an impact on the ways in which students feel a sense of belonging in classrooms.

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.

Kara & Nayeema will be back Thursday with a fresh episode of ON.

You can find Jonquilyn Hill on Twitter @jonquilynhill

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