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Culture." you have outlined what you have called the achievement discipline gap among african-american students. you say african-american middle school students are three times as likely to be disciplined as other groups of students. they make up only 20 persh of the student population but account for more than 40% of suspensions and expulsions, two thirds of which go to males. why? >> well, i think, first of all, i think theres a lot of overlap between what were talking about here and what we h...