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Direct linkBal, Aydin; Afacan, Kemal; Cakir, Halil Ibrahim – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
Historically, students from racially minoritized communities receive exclusionary disciplinary actions more frequently and severely in the United States. Researchers have recommended that schoolwide behavioral interventions implemented to address racial disproportionality need to be culturally responsive to local school contexts. Using the theory…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Minority Group Students, Middle School Students, Disproportionate Representation
Download full textMawene, Dian; Bal, Aydin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Drawn from interdisciplinary perspectives of special education, critical geography, and education policy, in this study, we examined the spatial patterns of residential areas, school attendance zones, and school discipline rates of an urbanizing school district in Wisconsin to understand the construction of spatial "Other." We measured…
Descriptors: Urbanization, School Districts, Discipline, Residential Patterns
Ko, Dosun; Bal, Aydin; Çakir, Halil Ibrahim; Kim, Hyejung – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: In the United States, students of color are more likely to receive disciplinary exclusion compared with their White peers. The racial disproportionality in exclusionary school discipline (e.g., office discipline referrals and suspension) marginalizes students from nondominant communities and further aggravates inequalities in academic,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Minority Group Students, Middle School Students, African American Students
Bal, Aydin; Afacan, Kemal; Cakir, Halil Ibrahim – American Educational Research Journal, 2018
Youth from racially minoritized communities disproportionately receive exclusionary school discipline more severely and frequently. The racialization of school discipline has been linked to long-term deleterious impacts on students' academic and life outcomes. In this article, we present a formative intervention, Learning Lab that addressed racial…
Descriptors: High School Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Discipline, Learning Laboratories
Bal, Aydin – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2016
Youth from nondominant racial communities have been disproportionately subjected to exclusionary disciplinary actions for less serious and more subjective incidents in the United States. This racial disproportionality in school discipline is associated with negative academic and social outcomes, further exacerbating the historical marginalization…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Race, Racial Discrimination, Discipline
Bal, Aydin; Betters-Bubon, Jennifer; Fish, Rachel E. – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Racial minority youth are disproportionally removed from their learning environment due to school discipline and placed in special education for emotional disturbance. These disparities continue to trouble families, educators, and policy makers, particularly within urban schools. Yet there is a paucity of research on how behavioral outcome…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Emotional Disturbances, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Elementary School Students
Bal, Aydin; Kozleski, Elizabeth B.; Schrader, Elizabeth M.; Rodriguez, Esmeralda M.; Pelton, Scott – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
The enduring existence of disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education programs and disciplinary practices creates a double bind for educators, educational leaders, and families. Disproportionality is an adaptive systemic issue that is not under any entity's control; thus,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
Artiles, Alfredo J.; Bal, Aydin; Trent, Stanley C.; Thorius, Kathleen King – Advances in Special Education (MS), 2012
Little research has been conducted regarding the disproportionate representation of minority learners in programs for students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (E/BD). To date, the majority of the disproportionality literature examines multiple eligibility categories, most frequently the high incidence disabilities of Mild Intellectual…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Eligibility, Special Education, Behavior Disorders
Sullivan, Amanda L.; Bal, Aydin – Exceptional Children, 2013
We examined the risk of disability identification associated with individual and school variables. The sample included 18,000 students in 39 schools of an urban K-12 school system. Descriptive analysis showed racial minority risk varied across 7 disability categories, with males and students from low-income backgrounds at highest risk in most…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Disproportionate Representation, Special Education, At Risk Persons
