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Kids of color get kicked out of school at higher rates – here's how to stop it

  • Written by Samuel Song, Associate Professor of School Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Black students and students with disabilities get suspended at higher rates, federal data show.From www.shutterstock.com

When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they had been waiting for a business meeting on April 12, the incident called renewed attention to the bias that racial minorities face in American society.

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