Fast Facts

Gary Pattillo
2011 College & research libraries news  
In a national sample of more than 9,000 middle schools, 28.3 percent of black males, on average, were suspended at least once during a school year, nearly three times the 10 percent rate for white males. Black females were suspended more than four times as often as white females (18 percent vs. 4 percent). "As the number of suspensions for kids of all races and all grades has risen dramatically, the gap between suspension rates for blacks and whites has more than tripled-from about 3 percentage
more » ... points in the 1970s to more than 10 percentage points today," said Daniel J. Losen of the Civil Rights Project, UCLA.
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