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Gender & Discipline

In the News

• A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls, New York Times, 2020

• Why Won't Society Let Black Girls Be Children?, NYT Parenting, 2020

• Pushed Out and Punished: One Woman's Story Shows How Systems are Failing Black Girls, USA Today, 2019

• What Can Be Done to Stop the Criminalization of Black Girls? Rebuild the System, USA Today, 2019

• Three Part Series on the Disproportionate Discipline of Black Girls, Education Week, 2019

  • ​Part One: 'Holla if You See Us' Black Girls in Spaces We Call Schools

  • Part Two: 'There is Still a Lot of Work' Schools Need to Do in Supporting Black Girls

  • Part Three: What Does it Mean to Be Young, Black and Female in America?

• How Dress Codes Criminalize Males and Sexualize Females of Color, Phi Delta Kappan, 2018

• Black Girls Are Disciplined More Harshly in School. Dress Codes Play a Big Role, Vox, 2018

• From Preschool to Prison: The Criminalization of Black Girls, American Progress, 2017

• How the School-to-Prison Pipeline Works: And Why Black Girls Are Particularly at Risk, TeenVogue, 2017

• When Black Hair Violates the Dress Code, NPR, 2017

• The War on Black Girls' Hair in Charter and Private Schools​, Schott Foundation for Public Education, 2017

• Schools’ Discipline for Girls Differs by Race and Hue, New York Times, 2014

• Racial Disparities in Discipline Greater for Girls than for Boys, Research Finds, Indiana University, 2017

• Black Boys in Crisis: The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Education Week, 2016

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Reports

• Dress Coded: Black Girls, Bodies, and Bias in D.C. Schools, National Women's Law Center, 2019

• Our Girls, Our Future: Investing in Opportunity and Reducing Reliance on the Criminal Justice System in Baltimore, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 2018

• Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities, US General Accounting Office, 2018

• The Schools Girls Deserve: Youth-Driven Solutions for Creating Safe, Holistic, and Affirming New York City Public Schools, Girls for Gender Equity, 2017

• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017​

• Girls Behaving Badly? Race, Gender, and Subjective Evaluation in the Discipline in African American Girls, Indiana University, American Sociology Association, 2017

• Let Her Learn: Stopping School Pushout for Girls of Color, National Women's Law Center, 2017

• Black Girls and School Discipline: The Complexities of Being Overrepresented and Understudied, Urban Education, 2016

• Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, 2014

• Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity, summary, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Women’s Law Center, 2014

• The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014

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Factsheets and Multimedia

• End Adultification Bias, video, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty's Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity, 2019

• Black Girls and School Discipline: Four Researchers Unpack K-12 Racial Bias, Education Week, 2017 [Video]

• Shining a Spotlight on Black Girls, Schott Foundation, 2016 [Infographic]

Action Resources

• Listening to Black Women and Girls: Lived Experiences of Adultification Bias, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2019; also visit https://endadultificationbias.org/

• Let Her Learn: Stopping School Pushout for Girls with Disabilities, National Women's Law Center, 2017

• Be Her Resource:  A Toolkit About School Resource Officers and Girls of Color, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017

• Let Her Learn: A Toolkit to Stop Push Out for Girls of Color, National Women's Law Center, 2016

• Addressing the Intersection of Gender and Racial Disparities, National Juvenile Justice Network, 2016

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