"The evidence is clear and compelling: despite years of reform efforts at all levels of the education system, disproportionality is a challenge in schools and districts throughout the nation. Racial and income disparities surface in studies of school suspensions, disciplinary referrals, overrepresentation of students of color and ELs in special education and underrepresentation of these same populations in GATE programs and AP classes. Surface level remedies such as alternatives to zero tolerance disciplinary policies can ...
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"The evidence is clear and compelling: despite years of reform efforts at all levels of the education system, disproportionality is a challenge in schools and districts throughout the nation. Racial and income disparities surface in studies of school suspensions, disciplinary referrals, overrepresentation of students of color and ELs in special education and underrepresentation of these same populations in GATE programs and AP classes. Surface level remedies such as alternatives to zero tolerance disciplinary policies can certainly help, but author Eddie Fergus argues that an understanding of the root causes of such problems are essential to solving them. The highly-successful predecessor to the proposed book, Fergus's Solving Disproportionality, helped readers analyze patterns of disproportionality across their schools and districts as well as provide an introduction to root cause analysis. This book, in contrast, is a deep dive into the nature of such root causes, e.g., biases, diminished expectation, and narrow cultural frames. More importantly, it provides concrete remedies to replacing deficit thinking and disrupting biases with healthier, culturally-sensitive meaning making systems and understandings that result in more inclusive and equitable schools"--
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