[Ohiogift] Fwd: Better instruction can reduce racial discipline disparities

[Margaret DeLacy]

>Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:51:52 -0700
>From: Margaret DeLacy <margaretdelacy at comcast.net>
>Subject: Better instruction can reduce racial discipline disparities
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>Friends:
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>Below is a link to and excerpt from the "Teaching Now" blog on Education Week
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>Instructional Improvements Can Help Close the Racial Discipline Gap, Study Finds
>By Madeline Will on July 28, 2016 3:58 PM 
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>...This study concluded that the racial discipline gap closes when teachers' instruction improves—"the degree to which teachers were observed as facilitating higher level thinking skills, problem solving, and metacognition was significantly linked to their equitable and infrequent use of discipline referrals," the researchers wrote. Students are more engaged when instruction is high quality and when teachers have high expectations for achievement, the study noted. ...
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>http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2016/07/can_teacher_pd_help_close_the_racial_discipline_gap.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news3
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>Here is a link to the original study, but it is behind a paywall:
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>Article Citation:
>Anne Gregory, Christopher A. Hafen, Erik Ruzek, Amori Yee Mikami, Joseph P. Allen, and Robert C. Pianta (2016) Closing the Racial Discipline Gap in Classrooms by Changing Teacher Practice. School Psychology Review: June 2016, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 171-191.
>doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17105/SPR45-2.171-191 
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>Margaret comments:  More evidence of the benefits of offering appropriate and advanced instruction to students.