@RachelLissy

Educator. Mediocre basketballer. Parallel parker. History, policy, anti-racism, education.

 brooklyn ny
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Joined October 2013
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Check out part 3 of my series with @metronyu on the history of discipline policy in NYC. This particular history always makes me furious. Read it and get mad with me! steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocent…

Intended Consequences and Explicit Bias: The Roots of Racialized Disproportionality in NYC Discip...

The history of the "principal's suspension" in New York City highlights the ways in which disproportionality was neither unforeseeable nor solely the result of educators' beliefs or practices. In...

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“Why do we suspend?” In part 2 of my series with @metronyu I explore the political (not pedagogical) origins of NYC’s suspension policies. #edpolicy #restorativejustice #discipline steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocent…
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As educators, it’s important to recognize that debates about school discipline are rarely just about student behavior or safety—they are also (and sometimes instead of) conversations about the fraught racial politics of segregation and unequal schools.
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I wrote about how debates about school discipline devolve into false binaries between accountability/understanding or hard/soft approaches. Why is this binary so compelling, persistent and inescapable? @metronyu #RJ #discipline #edpolicy steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocent…

“Zero Consequences” vs. “Zero Tolerance”: The Function of False Binaries in School Discipline...

What are the best responses to poor student behavior to maintain order in schools? In this blog post, Dr. Rachel Lissy examines the history of discipline policy in New York City Schools, and demons...

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Writing this piece helped me clarify that at the policy level debates between punitive vs restorative approaches obscure a more profound disagreement about the nature of schools’ in loco parentis responsibility. What “tough” proponents call accountability is actually neglect!
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Excited to share this week’s episode of @ThisAmerLife. Thanks @chanajoffewalt for inviting me to help capture this dystopian moment in public schooling!
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@ThisAmerLife14 Mar 2022
This week, we bring you the stories of two kids who have drifted away from school during the pandemic. And we see what happens when they try to make their way back. bit.ly/3J72eIp

School's Out Forever - This American Life

The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?

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