Voices from the (School-To-Prison) Pipeline
Description:... Mainstream society in America, from educators to politicians, to your next-door neighbor, seem to be hell-bent on preventing African Americans from getting a quality and equitable education. Are schools preparing the students for unemployment, poverty, and prison rather than a healthy and meaningful life of financial independence? More importantly: Can we do better? Is so, How? Based on my experience as an educator, these questions have kept me up at night. In urban communities with predominantly African-American students, the School-to-Prison (STP) Pipeline, is more complex than what researchers have revealed over the past three decades. For African-Americans in particular, a quality education continues to be out-of-reach. Moreover, the School-to-Prison Pipeline has many intersections than practitioners care to admit consisting of race, religion, class, and gender. The social, economic, and political implications of the School-to-Prison Pipeline have not adequately been addressed thus far, and this story has yet to be told.
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