Originally Posted by ElizabethN
Disabled students twice as likely to be suspended

I wonder what they'd see if they broke the data down by disability - I bet the kids in wheelchairs are not the ones being sent home.

I often cite the NYT, but many of its articles (and the academic research parroted by its reporters) are tendentious, including this one and a previous one

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/e...ce-more-harsh-discipline-data-shows.html
Black Students Face More Discipline, Data Suggests
By TAMAR LEWIN
March 6, 2012

I agree with the first "Reader Picks" comment at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/e...ipline-data-shows.html?comments#permid=7 .


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