The effects of racial threat on the use of expulsions and suspensions in North Carolina Public Schools
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Clara P. Williams (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Shelly Brown-Jeffy
Abstract: The current research study examined the effects of racial threat to understand its influence on the use of expulsions, in-school suspensions, and out-of-school suspensions in North Carolina Public Schools. This study also examined this relationship to see if locale would affect this relationship at all. The data from this study was pulled from two publicly available sources, specifically Civil Rights Data Collection and Common Core of Data. The data examined from these two sources focuses exclusively on data from the 2017-2018 academic school year. Results from the multiple regression models used to estimate the relationship between each response variable and predictor variables offered mix results. The results from the first regression models showed that the proportion of Black students in schools proved to be positively and significantly related to the use of expulsions, in-school suspensions, and out-of-school suspensions. After controlling for locale, the relationship between the proportion of Black students and the use of in-school suspensions and out-of-school suspensions remained unchanged. The relationship between the proportion of Black students and the use of in-school suspensions and out-of-school suspensions remained positively and significantly related to one another when locale was and was not being controlled for in these models. While the effects of racial threat remained unchanged, locale still mattered in the explanation of the use of in-school and out-of-school suspensions.
The effects of racial threat on the use of expulsions and suspensions in North Carolina Public Schools
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Created on 5/1/2024
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- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2024
- Keywords
- Expulsions, North Carolina, Racial Threat, Suspensions