Disproportionate discipline measures in schools harm Black students' academic growth and achievement. New reports highlight the link between discipline and academic disparities.

Yet, while the student population has become more diverse, faculty have remained predominantly White. Growth is equally slow for Black representation in academic leadership. Henry Martin Freeman ...

By many accounts, they simply were spirited ... being taunted and jumped” by two or more white students. “The problem is, when the Black kids fight back, they get severely punished for it ...