Report: US Teachers Beat Black School Children Twice As Much As Whites

A new report reveals black school children get beaten twice as much as whites in the U.S. with out-of-school-suspension rates four times higher.

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Third graders Danielle Levin, 8; Paige Simpson, 8; and Daniella Gama-Diaz, 8; from left, work on a lesson at Eagle Elementary School in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., Thursday, March 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

There was at least 57,000 incidents of educators beating Black children in the United States in a single year, according to a recent study by the Brookings Institute, highlighting that "Black children are twice as likely as White children to be subject to corporal punishment" at school. The disproportionality in corporal punishment in the U.S.

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