More than numbers: The harsh discipline of K-12 girls

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More than numbers: The harsh discipline of K-12 girls

Black girls are disproportionately disciplined in public schools, with Black girls accounting for nearly half of all exclusionary discipline cases and facing exclusionary expulsion and corporal punishment as early as preschool.

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