Targeted Solutions to Improve the School-to-Prison Pipeline

View Sample PDF

Author(s): Nicolas A. Kennedy (Baylor University, USA)and Erin O'Connor Marsano (Baylor University, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 21
Source title: PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patrick S. De Walt (California State University, Fresno, USA)and Dara N. Nix-Stevenson (Sincecombahee Educational Consulting, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9236-9.ch003

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / K-12 Education

Purchase

View Targeted Solutions to Improve the School-to-Prison Pipeline on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

Students who are subjected to exclusionary discipline have worse academic performance and are more likely to be incarcerated later in life. This phenomenon is nuanced and requires a calculated, multifaceted approach. As an educator and juvenile law attorney, the authors have seen the school-to-prison pipeline from both the school perspective and the legal perspective. They will use their combined narratives to raise awareness of the school-to-prison pipeline and provide a three-pronged approach to help curb its growth. This chapter unfolds by first discussing the phenomenon and how it can be recognized. Next, the authors address who is being impacted by the phenomenon and where it is taking place. Then, they discuss when to do something about the phenomenon, and what to do, before discussing the ways this autoethnographic self-narrative forced us to revisit our thinking. Finally, they provide a three-pronged approach modeled on a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) framework, restorative circles, and a teen court system.

The IRMA Community

Research IRM

Targeted Solutions to Improve the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Purchase

Abstract

Related Content

IRMA Sponsors