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Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2023

The Impact of Restorative Practices on the Use of Out-of-School Suspensions: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

Francis L Huang, Anne Gregory, Allison Rae Ward-Seidel

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Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Interventions to Address Racism in Disciplinary Actions in K-12 Schools: A Systematic Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026
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  5. Advanced Categorical Data Analysis in Prevention Science.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023
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  6. New Frontiers in Prevention Research Models: Commentary on the Special Issue.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Francis L HuangDepartment of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, Missouri Prevention Science Institute, University of Missouri, 16 Hill Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. huangf@missouri.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5900-7763
Anne GregoryRutgers University, 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
Allison Rae Ward-SeidelUniversity of Virginia, 405 Emmet St. S, VA, 22904, Charlottesville, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The overuse of exclusionary discipline practices, such as out-of-school suspensions (OSS), has consistently been documented over several decades. The resulting racial discipline disparities and the negative outcomes related to OSS have led policy makers and educators to consider other approaches to school discipline. One such approach, which has gained increasing use in the USA, is restorative practices (RP). However, despite its popularity, the experimental evidence base of the effects of RP and suspensions is extremely limited. To add to this knowledge base, we present findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial with 18 K-12 schools in an urban district in the US Northeast with 5878 students. Multilevel regression results, after 1 year of the intervention, showed no differences in the likelihood of suspension between students in the intervention and control schools and that the effects of the intervention did not vary by race/ethnicity, gender, or student disability status. However, for students in the intervention group, we show reductions in the likelihood of receiving an OSS for students who had previously been suspended.

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SchoolsStudentsEthnicityHumansSuspensionsSuspensionsCluster randomized controlled trialOut-of-school suspensionsRestorative practices

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PMID36853483
PMCPMC9972315

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