Understanding Racial Inequities in School Discipline (SOP89)

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Discipline in pre-K through 12 schools is not doled out equally, as black students, boys and students with disabilities are suspended and expelled at much higher rates than other students, according to a report released last year by the Government Accountability Office. These types of harsh discipline can have dire consequences on a child’s future, including putting him or her at a higher risk of falling into the school-to-prison pipeline. Guests Amanda Sullivan, PhD, associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota, and Ivory Toldson, PhD, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University, are experts on discipline disparities in pre-K to 12 schools. Join us online August 6-8 for APA 2020 Virtual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a biweekly podcast from the American Psychological Association.
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0:45.3	Caitlin Luna. Discipline in K-12 schools is not doled out equally, as black students, boys, and students with disabilities are suspended and expelled at much higher rates than other students.
0:50.7	That's according to a report released last year by the government accountability office.
0:55.0	These types of harsh discipline are even occurring in preschools across America.
0:59.0	Any kind of punishment that takes a kid out of the classroom is known as exclusionary discipline,
1:05.0	and it can have dire consequences on a child's future, including putting him or her at higher risk of falling into the school-to-prison
1:12.3	pipeline. Also, looming around this issue is the fact that the Department of Education rolled-back
1:17.6	protections intended to reduce these well-documented disparities in December 2018. To explain the current
1:24.7	state of school discipline and what we can do to help children have a fair shot at an education, our guests for this episode are Dr. Amanda Sullivan, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Ivory Toltsin, Professor of Education at Howard University. Both are experts on discipline disparities in pre-K through 12 schools. They presented at a
1:46.2	congressional briefing hosted by APA on the topic in June 2019. Welcome, Dr. Sullivan and Dr. Tolson.
1:52.9	Thank you for having us. Thank you. I'll start with you, Dr. Sullivan, first. You know, I gave a
1:57.0	brief explanation of what the term exclusionary discipline means, but it would be helpful for you to expand on that a bit more for our listeners.
2:03.2	Yeah, certainly.
2:03.9	So common practices include suspension and expulsion,
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