The book focuses on the experiences of a group of Black male students that have been labeled by school officials as disciplinary problems. It is an important book for practitioners to read because it highlights how students experience schooling, the labels given to them, the expectations held about them and the discipline they receive in school.
Ferguson, A.A. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Preeminent authors in the field of equitable education, Gregors, Skiba, and Mediratta provide practitioners with a ten-point framework to reduce race and gender disparity in school discipline.
Gregory, Anne, Skiba, Russell J., and Mediratta, Kavitha. 2017. “Eliminating Disparities in School Discipline: A Framework for Intervention.” Review of Research in Education 41: 253-278.
