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Instructional Improvements Can Help Close the Racial Discipline Gap, Study Finds

Thursday, July 28, 2016
Education Week

Personalized professional development in instructional improvement can lead to reduced and more equitable disciplinary referrals—posing a possible solution to the racial discipline gap in schools, where black students are more frequently and more severely punished for the same infractions as their non-black peers. 

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