Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial Disparities in School Discipline

The talk examined how teacher biases and racialized organizations contribute to racial disparities in school discipline. Jayanti Owens, Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University, presented “Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial Disparities in School Discipline” at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University on October 5, 2021. The talk was part of Annenberg’s Education Policy Workshop Series, an hour-long “works in progress” seminar centered on empirical research related to education and education policy. Speakers come from a variety of disciplinary traditions, and the series welcomes faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and research staff from across the university who are interested in empirical research in education.