While investing more money could play a hand in improving Ontario’s special education, improvements should begin with a critical look at teacher training.
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The number of permanent exclusions is rising much faster among girls than boys.
Research needs to account for the contribution of other factors beyond exclusion towards violence.
There is regular reporting of ‘poor’ school outcomes for Indigenous students. But we still don’t have clear data on the high rates of these children being suspended or expelled.
Two male students have been expelled from a Melbourne private school for their involvement in a list ranking female students.
In the absence of explicit national legislation against hair-based discrimination, young people are demanding fairer rules - and a culture shift.
School exclusions aren’t increasing student attainment, in fact they’re making things worse.
The education system is failing some of the country’s most vulnerable children.
There is conclusive evidence that in most cases, suspension only reinforces negative behaviour.
Indigenous youth are over-representation in juvenile detention centres, and excluding them from education could make this worse.
‘Cage-like’ facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.
School expulsions are on the rise in Australia. But research shows individual punishment as a deterrent rarely works.
In 2013, 3,900 young people were permanently excluded from secondary schools in England. The most common reason for these children to be removed from the mainstream school system was persistent disruptive…
At the end of last week the government released the autumn figures for pupil absence in English schools. The figures show an ongoing drop in the number of children skipping school. But they also raise…
Mr Drew’s School for Boys, currently showing on Channel Four, illustrates in graphic detail the kinds of behaviour that causes trouble in school. Eleven boys under the age of 12 who have either been excluded…
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Education, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Education, The Open University
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Lecturer in Special Education, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Youth Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Deputy Director of the Rees Centre and Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor in the School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Principal Research Fellow & Deputy Head of School, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Senior research fellow, epidemiology and medical statistics, University of Bristol
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Professor of Criminology, University of Hull
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Teacher Education, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology