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Study finds metal detectors more common in high-minority schools
- 08-29-2011
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By Sarah D. Sparks/Education Week
Minority students in a high-poverty neighborhood are more likely to pass through a metal detector on the way to class than their better-off and white peers are, even if the schools are equally safe, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of California, Irvine, based their findings on a study of nationally representative school data. They presented the study Aug. 20 at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, held in Las Vegas. Security measures adopted from the criminal-justice arena—from metal detectors and surveillance cameras to full-time guards and drug-sniffing dogs—have proliferated in the past decade or so, particularly in secondary schools. (more...)
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