@article{873,
  keywords = {Education and school, Gender and sexual orientation},
  author = {Joel Mittleman},
  title = {Sexual Orientation and School Discipline: New Evidence From a Population-Based Sample},
  abstract = {<p>Sexual minorities{\textquoteright} risk for exclusionary discipline is a commonly cited indicator of the challenges that these students face. The current study addresses this issue by introducing a new data source for research on sexual minority students: the Fragile Families and Childhood Wellbeing Study. In this geographically diverse, population-based sample, I find that sexual minorities continue to face higher rates of discipline than their peers. However, this risk is highly stratified by sex: Same-sex attraction is associated with 95\% higher odds of discipline among girls but no apparent discipline risk among boys. Sexual minority girls{\textquoteright} risk for discipline is only partially mediated by behavior, a result that is plausibly consistent with the interpretation that these students continue to face discriminatory treatment in schools.</p>
},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {Educational Researcher},
  volume = {47},
  number = {3},
  pages = {181-190},
  url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X17753123},
}