“My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3,” headlined one mother’s recent article in the Washington Post that helped kindle the conversation of school suspension rates in the American education system.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussed racial disparity in school suspensions with HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont-Hill on Tuesday.
She explained that schools’ disproportionately large percentages of black student suspensions has less to do with white teachers not understanding the behavior of black students, and more to do with fear they bring into the classroom with them.
[For more of this story, written by Jessica Dickerson, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/school-suspensions-life-course_n_5635089.html?utm_hp_ref=tw]
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