--- title: School: Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More description: Why special-needs kids are over-disciplined, surprising data on the sharing economy, bad news about super-bacteria and more. canonical: https://time.com/3972988/why-students-with-disabilities-are-punished-more/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-27T18:19:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:18.283Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3972988/why-students-with-disabilities-are-punished-more/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 27, 2015 6:19 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 27, 2015 6:19 PM UTC **1\.** [**Find out why schools still disproportionately suspend and punish special-needs kids.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/school-discipline-children-disabilities/399563/) By Katherine Reynolds Lewis in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Despite the sharing economy buzz, the number of self-employed Americans is going down.**](http://www.wsj.com/articles/proof-of-a-gig-economy-revolution-is-hard-to-find-1437932539) By Josh Zumbrun and Anna Louie Sussman in the Wall Street Journal **3\.** [**Antibiotic resistant bacteria just got worse.**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/super-superbugs-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-may-be-deadlier/) By Rachael Rettner and LiveScience **4\.** [**Even states that lost President Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ enacted education reforms.**](http://educationnext.org/results-president-obama-race-to-the-top-reform/) By William G. Howell in EducationNext **5\.** [**Is domestication the last option for the world’s rhinos?**](https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-rhinos-last-stand/?) By Carly Nairn in Guernica Magazine  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3972988/why-students-with-disabilities-are-punished-more/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3972988/why-students-with-disabilities-are-punished-more/"},"headline":"Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More","datePublished":"2015-07-27T18:19:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:18.283Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3972988/why-students-with-disabilities-are-punished-more/","keywords":["Innovation","sharing economy","antibiotic resistance"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3972988/why-students-with-disabilities-are-punished-more/","name":"Why Students With Disabilities Are Punished More"}}]}] ```