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Voices of the Unheard: Black Girls and School Discipline

Little, Alexis Patrice
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1591121132272033

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
The Guns Free School Act of 1994 led to the overuse of zero tolerance discipline policies and practices in public schools. Policy evaluations, empirical studies, and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights found pervasive racial and gender disparities in school discipline in the decades following. When disaggregating discipline data for female students by race, Black girls consistently faced the highest rates of exclusionary punishments compared to any other racial group (regardless of other identifiers such as socioeconomic, disability, etc.). Despite this alarming trend, there is comparatively less scholarship and education policy focus on Black girls' educational experiences with school discipline. This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study used school and district-level data to investigate school discipline for female students in elementary, middle, and high-school in a Midwestern state. This study incorporated Black girls’ voices to consider solutions by gathering their perspectives concerning current high school experiences related to discipline and effective alternatives and supportive resources for their schools.
Karen Beard, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Ann Allen, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Minjung Kim , Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kisha Radliff, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
283 p.
Black Studies; Education; Education Policy
Black girls; School Discipline; Zero Tolerance; Restorative Practices; Guns-Free School Act; Implicit Bias; Critical Race Theory; Intersectionality; Critical Policy Analysis; Black Feminist Theory; Positive Psychology; Mixed Methods

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  • Little, A. P. (2020). Voices of the Unheard: Black Girls and School Discipline [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1591121132272033

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Little, Alexis. Voices of the Unheard: Black Girls and School Discipline. 2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1591121132272033.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Little, Alexis. "Voices of the Unheard: Black Girls and School Discipline." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1591121132272033

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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