Natasha K. Bowen

Racial Justice in Schools

Measures, Disparity Calculator, Sequence of Strategies to Eliminate Disparities in Exclusionary Discipline

Racial disparities in academic outcomes are endemic in US schools and show no sign of improvement. The nature of a school’s racial climate, discipline practices, and teacher-student relationships helps explain the magnitude of disparities. Here you will find quick easy measures of student and teacher perceptions of racial climate and discipline practices, an easy-to-use Excel calculator of discipline disparities, and a sequence of lessons and strategies to reduce root causes of disparities. The sequence can be used as a professional development program, or individual lessons and strategies can be selected.

SCHOOLS

Links to resources for practitioners and researchers who work with schools to help all students succeed. Click here for assessments, prevention strategies, and information on the populations and problems social workers encounter. See also the racial justice module.

Black Lives Matter

Resources you can understand on confirmatory factor analysis and latent variable hypothesis testing in SEM. Here you can find handouts on best practices in SEM, evaluating fit, improving models, multiple group analysis, and measurement invariance testing. Annotated syntax and output for Mplus for different types of analyses are also provided.