{"product_id":"suspended-education-school-punishment-and-the-legacy-of-racial-injustice-9781479821143","title":"Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most within this broken system, experiencing a far greater risk of school punishment and the significant harms that accompany it. Many activists and scholars have considered how school punishment increases racial inequity, but few have thought to ask \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e. Why do we punish students the way we do, and why have we allowed this harmful practice to impact the lives of our nation's children? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSuspended Education, \u003c\/i\u003e Aaron Kupchik takes readers to the root of the issue. Suspensions were not intended as a behavior management tool. Instead, they were designed to remove unwanted students from the classroom. Through statistical analysis and in-depth case studies of schools in Massachusetts and Delaware, Kupchik reveals how suspension rates skyrocketed after the 1954 \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education \u003c\/i\u003edecision, serving as an unofficial means of removing Black children from newly desegregated schools. His groundbreaking research traces the legacy of these segregationist movements, demonstrating that school districts with more desegregation-related legal battles from the 1950s onward suspend more Black students today. Combining expert analysis with compelling, accessible prose, Kupchik makes a powerful case for the end of suspension and other exclusionary punishments. The result is a revelatory explanation of a pressing problem facing all children, parents, and educators today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Kupchik \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He is the author of many books including \u003ci\u003eHomeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Real School Safety Problem: The Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment. \u003c\/i\u003eHis book \u003ci\u003eJudging Juveniles: Prosecuting Adolescents in Adult and Juvenile Courts \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199707808018,"sku":"9781479821143","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b8dfd3fe-a4b8-4f2c-8548-3f8707b281a1.jpg?v=1744882456","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/suspended-education-school-punishment-and-the-legacy-of-racial-injustice-9781479821143","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}