Review of Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice, by Aaron Kupchik

Gail L. Sunderman is a National Center on Education Policy (NEPC) fellow and research associate with the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. She is co-founder and former director of the Maryland Equity Project at the University of Maryland, a research and policy center focused on access to educational opportunities in Maryland.  Prior to joining the University of Maryland, she directed the Mid-Atlantic Equity Center at The George Washington University, where she oversaw the development of the Equity Planning Tool, a research-based instrument designed to assist districts in assessing equity. At the Harvard Civil Rights Project (CRP), she was the lead researcher on a five-year study examining the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. In addition to her scholarly work, Sunderman has served as an expert consultant on educational disparities for the U.S. Department of Justice and other organizations. She is a former Fulbright scholar to Afghanistan and received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.