Exclusionary discipline of students with disabilities: Student and school characteristics predicting suspension

Remedial and Special Education

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 199-210

  Sullivan, Amanda L ^a   Van Norman, Ethan R ^a   Klingbeil, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discipline; Disproportionality; Multilevel modeling; Students with disabilities; Suspension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927654082     PISSN: 07419325     EISSN: 15384756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741932513519825     Document Type: Article

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