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K-12 Racial Disparities in School Discipline

Founded in 1996 by former Harvard professors Gary Orfield and Christopher Edley, Jr., the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles is now co-directed by Orfield and Patricia Gándara, professors at UCLA. Its mission is to create a new generation of research in social science and law, on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for racial and ethnic groups in the United States. It has commissioned more than 400 studies, published 14 books and issued numerous reports from authors at universities and research centers across the country. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision upholding affirmative action, and in Justice Breyer’s dissent (joined by three other Justices) to its 2007 Parents Involved in Community Schools decision, cited the Civil Rights Project’s research.

There are 42 publications in this collection, published between 2000 and 2024.

Flores, Ramon; Losen, Daniel J: Update to Lost Instruction Time in California Schools, 2024

Flories, Ramon T; Losen, Daniel J: Lost Instruction Time in California Schools: The Disparate Harm from Post-Pandemic Punitive Suspensions, 2023

Losen, Daniel J J.D.; Goyal, Shuchi; Alam, Mahreen; Salazar, Rogelio: Unmasking School Discipline Disparities in California:  What the 2019-2020 Data Can Tell Us About Problems and Progress, 2022

Losen, Daniel J JD; Martinez, Paul; Rim Shin, Grace Hae: Disabling Inequity: The Urgent Need for Race-Conscious Resource Remedies, 2021

Losen, Daniel J.; Martinez, Paul: Is California Doing Enough to Close the School Discipline Gap?, 2020

Losen, Daniel J JD; Martinez, Paul: Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn, 2020

Whitaker, Amir; Losen, Daniel J: The Striking Outlier: The Persistent, Painful and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools, 2019

Losen, Daniel J; Martin, Kacy: The Unequal Impact of Suspension on the Opportunity to Learn in CA, 2018

Losen, Daniel J; Whitaker, Amir: Lost Instruction: The Disparate Impact of the School Discipline Gap in California, 2017

Rumberger, Russell W.; Losen, Daniel J.: The Hidden Cost of California's Harsh School Discipline, 2017

Losen, Daniel J; Keith, Michael A II; Hodson, Cheri L; Martinez, Tia E: Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Review, 2016

Losen, Daniel J.: Researchers Responses to Critiques of Our Study, "Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Report.", 2016

Rumberger, Russell W; Losen, Daniel J: The High Cost Of Harsh Discipline And Its Disparate Impact, 2016

Losen, Daniel J.; Hodson, Cheri L.; Keith II, Michael A; Morrison, Katrina; Belway, Shakti: Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap?, 2015

Losen, Daniel J.; Keith, Michael A. II; Hodson, Cheri L.; Martinez, Tia E.; Belway, Shakti: Closing the School Discipline Gap in California: Signs of Progress, 2015

Belfield, Clive R: The Costs of High School Failure and School Suspensions for the State of California, 2014

Belfield, Clive R: The Economic Burden of High School Dropouts and School Suspensions in Florida, 2014

Losen, Daniel J; Martinez, Tia E; Okelola, Valerie: Keeping California's Kids in School, 2014

Losen, Daniel J: Nationwide Survey of State Education Agencies’ Online School Disciplinary Data for Students with Disabilities , 2014

Balfanz, Robert; Byrnes, Vaughan; Fox, Joanna: Sent Home and Put Off-Track: The Antecedents, Disproportionalities, and Consequences of Being Suspended in the Ninth Grade, 2013

Cornell, Dewey Ph.D.; Lovegrove, Peter Ph.D.: Student Threat Assessment as a Method of Reducing Student Suspensions, 2013

Fenning, Pamela; Pigott, Therese; Engler, Elizabeth; Bradshaw, Katie; Gamboney, Elizabeth; Grunewald, Stephanie et al.: A Mixed Methods Approach Examining Disproportionality in School Discipline, 2013

Finn, Jeremy D; Servoss, Timothy J: Misbehavior, Suspensions, and Security Measures in High School: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences, 2013

Gándara, Patricia; Oseguera, Leticia; Pérez Huber, Lindsay; Locks, Angela; Ee, Jongyeon; Molina, Daniel: Making Education Work for Latinas in the U.S., 2013

Greflund, Sara; McIntosh, Kent; Mercer, Sterett H; May, Seth L: Examining Disproportionality in School Discipline Practices for Native American Students in Canadian Schools Implementing PBIS, 2013

Kupchik, Aaron; Catlaw, Thomas J: Discipline and Participation: The Long-Term Effects of Suspension and School Security on the Political and Civic Engagement of Youth, 2013

Losen, Daniel J; Hodson, Cheri; Ee, Jongyeon; Martinez, Tia E: Disturbing Inequities: Exploring the Relationship Between Racial Disparities in Special Education Identification and Discipline, 2013

Losen, Daniel J.: Nationwide Survey of State Education Agencies’ Online School Disciplinary Data , 2013

Losen, Daniel J; Martinez, Tia E: Out of School and Off Track: The Overuse of Suspensions in American Middle and High Schools, 2013

Marchbanks, Miner P III; Blake, Jamilia J; Booth, Eric A; Carmichael, Dottie; Seibert, Allison L; Fabelo, Tony: The Economic Effects of Exclusionary Discipline on Grade Retention and High School Dropout, 2013

Schiff, Mara Ph.D.: Dignity, Disparity and Desistance: Effective Restorative Justice Strategies to Plug the "School-to-Prison Pipeline", 2013

Shollenberger, Tracey L: Racial Disparities in School Suspension and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, 2013

Skiba, Russell J; Trachok, Megan; Chung, Choong-Geun; Baker, Timberly; Sheya, Adam; Hughes, Robin: Where Should We Intervene? Contributions of Behavior, Student, and School Characteristics to Suspension and Expulsion, 2013

Steinberg, Matthew P; Allensworth, Elaine; Johnson, David W: What Conditions Jeopardize and Support Safety in Urban Schools? The Influence of Community Characteristics, School Composition and School Organizational Practices on Student and Teacher Reports of Safety in Chicago, 2013

Toldson, Ivory A; McGee, Tyne; Lemmons, Brianna P: Reducing Suspension among Academically Disengaged Black Males, 2013

Vanderhaar, Judi E Ph.D.; Petrosko, Joseph M Ph.D; Muñoz, Marco A Ed.D: Reconsidering the Alternatives: The Relationship between Suspension, Disciplinary Alternative School Placement, Subsequent Juvenile Detention, and the Salience of Race, 2013

Vincent, Claudia G; Sprague, Jeffrey R; Gau, Jeff M: The Effectiveness of School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports for Reducing Racially Inequitable Disciplinary Exclusions in Middle Schools, 2013

Vincent, Claudia G; Pavel, Michael CHiXapkaid; Sprague, Jeffrey R; Tobin, Tary J: Towards Identifying School-level Factors Reducing Disciplinary Exclusions of American Indian/Alaska Native Students, 2013

Losen, Daniel J.; Gillespie, Jonathan: Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School, 2012

Losen, Daniel J.; Martinez, Tia; Gillespie, Jon: Suspended Education in California, 2012

Losen, Daniel J.; Skiba, Russell J.: Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis, 2010

The Civil Rights Project: Opportunities Suspended: The Devastating Consequences of Zero Tolerance and School Discipline, 2000

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