Do Suspensions Affect Student Outcomes?
By J. Lacoe, Matthew P. Steinberg. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
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Discipline reformers claim that suspensions negatively affect suspended students, while others suggest reforms have unintended consequences for peers. Using student panel data from the School District of Philadelphia, we implement student fixed effects and instrumental variable (IV) strategies to examine the consequences of suspensions for offending students and their peers. A suspension decreases math and reading achievement for suspended students. The effects are robust to IV estimates leveraging a district-wide policy change in suspension use. Suspensions are more salient for students who personally experience suspension than for their peers. Exposure to suspensions for more serious misconduct has very small, negative spillovers onto peer achievement, but does not change peer absences.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education
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In Developmental and Educational Psychology
In Education
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- Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers’ Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes (2020, background): “Educators with stronger implicit biases may be more likely to interpret Black students’ behaviors as threatening and hence dispense discipline (A. A. Ferguson, 2000), which can negatively affect student learning and other life outcomes (Gregory et al., 2010; Lacoe & Steinberg, 2019).”