This working group brings together faculty and students from U.C. Berkeley and a local high school to research the impact of school disciplinary practices on racial/ethnic minority students. We explore whether alternative forms of discipline, founded on restorative justice principles, are a viable and healthy alternative to traditional paradigms. In the Fall of 2009, 13 students from a local high school participated in a seminar designed and facilitated by members of the working group. Students in the seminar became familiar with the history of discipline within...