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Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Disentangling the Intersections of Student Behavior, School Discipline, and School Safety in the Post-COVID Era

Policy Brief

Richard O. Welsh and Kathryn James McGraw

May 20, 2025

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NEPC Review: Suspended Reality: The Impact of Suspension Policy on Student Safety (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Kathryn Wiley and Kate Somerville

December 7, 2021

Michelle Renée Valladares, Ph.D. and Kate Somerville on COVID-19's Impact on K-12 Education

FYI

Michelle Renée Valladares and Kate Somerville

July 8, 2020

The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?

Policy Brief

Anne Gregory and Katherine R. Evans

January 14, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Mark Warren, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, and Jonathan Stith About the Educational Justice Movement

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Mark R. Warren, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, and Jonathan Stith

March 26, 2019

Reviews Worth Sharing: Focusing on School Safety After Parkland (The Heritage Foundation, March 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Dustin Pappas and Meredith Mountford

July 3, 2018

NEPC Review: Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap (Brookings Institution, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Chris Torres and Joanne W. Golann

April 11, 2018

NEPC Review: The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Yolanda Anyon and Kathryn Wiley

February 15, 2018

Law and Order in School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color, and What We Can Do About It

Policy Brief

Janelle T. Scott, Michele S. Moses, Kara Finnigan, Tina Trujillo, and Darrell Jackson

June 8, 2017

NEPC Review: Understanding a Vicious Cycle: Do Out-of-School Suspensions Impact Student Test Scores? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Brea L. Perry and Daniel J. Losen

June 1, 2017

Disproportionate Impact of K-12 School Suspension and Expulsion on Black Students in Southern States

Resource Document

Shaun Harper

May 26, 2016

Colorado Disciplinary Practices, 2008-2010: Disciplinary Actions, Student Behaviors, Race, and Gender

Research Brief

Ryan Pfleger and Kathryn Wiley

April 30, 2012

Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice

Legislative Brief

Daniel J. Losen

October 5, 2011

Resisting Zero Tolerance

Resource Document

William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn

January 1, 1999