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Kennedy-Lewis, Brianna L. – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
The increasing use of zero tolerance discipline policies in the USA has led to a "discipline gap," in which minoritized students receive harsher and more frequent suspensions and expulsions than their peers from dominant cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Though disciplinary decisions are made by educators at the school level,…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Policy Analysis, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Pacheco, Mariana – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This case study of reading activity in third-grade bilingual classrooms at a state-sanctioned "successful" school examines the influences of the California accountability framework--Proposition 227, No Child Left Behind, and the federal Reading First program--on shifting beliefs and practices around what "counts" as reading.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Bilingual Education, Reading Achievement, Bilingualism