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Impact Of Cultural Competence Professional Development On The Suspension Referrals Of Minority Students, Philip Bonar
Impact Of Cultural Competence Professional Development On The Suspension Referrals Of Minority Students, Philip Bonar
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
Racial disparity in discipline practices is a concern in public schools across the United States. Racial disparities in exclusionary discipline practices (EDP), such as in-school and out-of-school suspensions of minority students, have been well documented. The purpose of this causal-comparative quantitative study was to examine if a relationship exists between cultural competence (CC) professional development training of faculty (administrators and professional teachers) and the suspension referral counts of Latinx and African American students in an affluent, award-winning public school system in a Mid-Atlantic state. Discipline referral data was collected from the Office of Planning and Evaluation to run a Mann-Whitney …
The Relationship Between In-School Suspension And The Academic Achievement Of Middle School African American Males, Michael Eugene Seckinger
The Relationship Between In-School Suspension And The Academic Achievement Of Middle School African American Males, Michael Eugene Seckinger
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to investigate the relationship between time assigned to in-school suspension and the math and reading scores on the 2013-2014 Georgia Criterion Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) for 6th to 8th grade regular education, African American male students. Archival data from school databases were used for this study. Following IRB approval and with permission from each district superintendent, in-school suspension and CRCT score data were collected for 6th to 8th grade regular education, African American male students who had been assigned to 1 or more days of in-school suspension, sampled from 30 middle schools …