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As we consider our current social and political climate, education policy scholars can contribute to the conversation about race, schooling, & policing by elevating existing research that informs debate and action. Please reply with studies you find powerful/useful.
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@WesternBruce and Wilderman chronicle the emergence of mass incarceration and its impact on the structure of Black families. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716208324850
The late Pauli Murray describes the underlying reasons why African Americans were protesting during the Civil Rights Movement. In her recollection, she highlights many of the sentiments that protestors feel in today's movement. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271626535700106
The late Lewis Killian analyzes the white reaction to the Black Power Movement of the late 1960's and the demands for reparations. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271628145400105
@EricaOTurner1 and Beneke examines how a city decides to maintain and expand the use of SRO's in its high schools. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2019.1679753
Kathleen Nolan uses in-depth interviews with and observations of students to detail daily life at a Bronx high school. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/police-in-the-hallways
Theriot and Orme use survey analysis to find that Black students and victimized students felt less safe with the presence of School Resource Officers in their schools. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1541204014564472
Ryan et al. @jill4cu discuss incidents and various issues raised by parents and students involving School Resource Officers. The authors offer recommendations and best practices. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1053451217702108
Ang documents the disparate impacts of officer-involved killings on the educational and psychological well-being of Black and Latinx high school students. https://www.educationnext.org/new-research-shows-killings-by-police-hurt-grades-graduation-rates-nearby-black-hispanic-schoolchildren/
Using data from Texas, @emilyweisburst finds that federal grants for police increase middle school discipline rates and decrease high school graduation and college enrollment rates. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pam.22116?casa_token=lkiW7tRAjrUAAAAA%3AofknKp9tVrKlBgswQ74U4UEyGFO8pjwMW1Rg4gM7pGVeSlSMAqwukII4tW-ygW4Gj2hiIEGSYgqZWUf1
