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'Moonlight' schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline, too?

  • Written by Derek Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
image2017's winner for Best Picture casts new light on the issue of school discipline reform.A24 Films

This year’s Academy Award winner for best picture tackles a difficult topic in the education world today: school discipline. In “Moonlight,” high school boys taunt the main character, Chiron, with homophobic slurs before beating him....

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