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Martin, Jennifer L.; Sharp-Grier, Martina; Smith, Julia B. – Leadership and Research in Education, 2016
This study examines the Civil Rights Data Collection of 2014, consisting of 49,605,534 students from 95,635 public schools covering grades from Kindergarten to 12th grade. The primary focus of this study was to examine the relative distribution of different types of discipline between ethnic groups and genders. In every category, the levels…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
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Martin, Jennifer L.; Martin, Tabitha; Capel, Mandy – Leadership and Research in Education, 2014
All three of us, the authors, are white and do not speak Ebonics, (or African American Language, AAL). How the misperceptions of AAL impact our students inspired our interest in the subject. The title of this piece refers to the ubiquity of AAL, historically, culturally, as an influential cultural wellspring. Although AAL continues to influence…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, African American Culture, Misconceptions, Language Variation