- Education equity for all: This website provides an overview on the causes of inequity in schools and how restorative practices can help solve the problems.
- Years of reform efforts contribute to declining African-American suspension rates in California (EdSource)
- Are achievement gaps related to discipline gaps? Evidence from national data (Pearman et al.)
- Emotions help steer students’ learning, studies find (EdWeek)
- Brief intervention to encourage empathic discipline cuts suspension rates in half among adolescents (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Effective classroom management strategies and classroom management programs for educational practice (GION onderwijs/onderzoek)
- Social emotional learning in high school: How three urban high schools engage, educate and empower youth (Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education)
- Colorado school discipline improves after state passes law emphasizing restorative practices.
- University of Minnesota research demonstrates the positive impact of restorative conferencing for students facing expulsion at Minneapolis Public Schools.
- San Francisco United School District cuts suspensions in half with restorative practices.
- A national report from New Zealand shows that restorative practices are key to student engagement and achievement.
- The social structure of criminalized and medicalized school discipline, an academic study of 60,000 schools in over 6,000 districts finds evidence of racial disparity in discipline (Sociology of Education)
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