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Title: School Characteristics Related to the Use of Suspension.
Author : Education & Treatment of Children
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 228 KB

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Abstract Concerns about school safety and disruptive behavior, as well as increasing use of zero tolerance policies, have resulted in escalating rates of exclusionary disciplinary practices (out-of-school suspension and expulsion) in America's schools. The present study examined suspension rates in Kentucky middle schools (N = 161), using both quantitative and qualitative procedures. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were computed to identify those school-level variables that showed strong relationships to suspension rate. A sample of 20 schools with the highest suspension rates was compared to a sample of 20 schools with the lowest suspension rates using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). In addition, four schools from each group were selected as case examples. Information gathered from administrator surveys, staff interviews, and on-site observations provided detailed descriptions of the characteristics of schools with high and low suspension rates. The findings of this study demonstrated that a number of school variables are differentially related to suspension rates. Implications of these findings for school discipline reform are discussed.