Eliminating Racial Profiling in School Discipline

Cultures in Conflict

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by Martha R. Bireda

Rowman and Littlefield

Due/Published March 2002, pages, paper

ISBN 0810842017

Referrals, suspensions, and expulsions of African-American students, especially males, are at an all-time high. However, as this book shows, culturally-determined assumptions and friction over communication have a role to play in this as well. This book is designed to make readers aware of how cultural factors relate to the ways that discipline is meted out. Administrators and teachers will gain an understanding of how culturally conditioned beliefs and assumptions negatively influence student-teacher relationships. Ultimately this book proposes a set of strategies in order to solve the problem of high frequency of disciplinary referrals.