The Kentucky State University director of the Atwood Institute for Race, Education, and the Democratic Ideal recently signed a book contract for an 18-chapter work. 

Dr. Anthony Troy Adams, director of the Atwood Institute and professor of sociology, signed a contract with IGI Global for his upcoming book “Approaching Disparities in School Discipline: Theory, Research, Practice and Social Change”. 

Adams said the book will challenge readers to take action against prevailing inequities. Adams also noted data from the Office of Civil Rights that over 3.45 million students were suspended from school in 2011-12 and that Black students are suspended and expelled three times the rate of their white peers. 

“Approaching Disparities in School Discipline” is scheduled for a spring 2022 publication.