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“It’s Going to Go in One Ear and Out the Other”: Black Girls Talk Back to Administrator Perceptions of Justice-Oriented School Discipline

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This study offers the results of a Black feminist project in humanization designed to understand administrators' role in interrupting the over-disciplining of Black girls in urban public schools. Carried out with 5 Black girls on probation and 5 Black urban school leaders, the findings suggest that the approaches the administrators used to uplift social justice were not as useful to Black girls' educational experiences as they were assumed to be. In discussion, the paper attributes the disconnection between intent and reception to the competing demands administrators are subject to in a racialized neoliberal educational context.

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Edwards, E.B. “It’s Going to Go in One Ear and Out the Other”: Black Girls Talk Back to Administrator Perceptions of Justice-Oriented School Discipline. Urban Rev 55, 244–268 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-022-00647-0

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