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"Arguing that the school-to-prison pipeline is "one of the most urgent educational issues of our time," this volume seeks to (1) examine how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools into our prisons and (2) consider what school-based educators can do to disrupt this flow and dismantle the school to prison pipeline, using examples drawn from both schools and prisons. Incorporating perspectives from both 'ends' of the pipeline, the volume provides specific strategies on curriculum, pedagogy, and disciplinary practices that can help redirect our collective efforts from carceral practices to education that will be valuable for all educators in keeping students in school and out of prison"--
About the author
Peter Williamson is an associate professor at Stanford University and faculty director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) for secondary teachers.
Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of educational studies at Carleton College and author of
Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents, Third Edition.
Summary
Examines how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of colour, are being taken from our schools and put into our prisons. Williamson and Appleman offer their perspectives on how schooling can be restructured to disrupt this flow and dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.
