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Suspension Rates: How Blacks And White Students Drop Out
The Authors were Talisha Lee, Dewey Cornell form the University of Virginia, Anne Gregory from Rutgers University and Xitao Fan from University of Virginia
The study examined the association between school suspension rates and dropout rates in a statewide sample of 289 Virginia public high schools. The student attitudes also played a factor in influence suspension rates, the prevalence of aggressive attitudes and rejection of school rules among students were used as additional predictors. The main argument is that the authors wanted to show that the suspension rate and dropout rate plays a factor to one another along with demography and resources when it comes to how blacks and white students drop out rate affects them. More than 3.3 million
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