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Nashville Minority Students Who Disrupt Class Don’t Get Traditional Punishment

August 31, 2019August 30, 2019 Chris Butler

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Traditional methods of punishing public school students who act out in class oppress blacks and Latinos, according to a New York City-based education official who defends a much softer way of teaching them discipline. That person, Kesi Foster, said as much in a scholarly journal in 2015. And that’s…

Nashville Program to Avoid Punishing Minority Students Long on Jargon, Short on Specifics

August 29, 2019August 28, 2019 Chris Butler

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Too many minority kids in Nashville get suspended for disrupting class, and government central planners say it’s their job to equal everything out in terms of racial disparities.