Document Type
Article in Response to Controversy
Abstract
Among the several terms and phrases that populate the educational literature, both lay and professional, the phrase school-to-prison pipeline is without doubt the dominant, with few challengers in sight. Much like at-risk, or eight hour retarded child, linking specific school policies to subsequent incarceration captures the disturbing and seemingly entrenched statistics on racial inequity in schooling, doing so in a crisp imagery of a pipeline. With such a physical imagery, the phrase implies, or advances a causal connection between school practices and racial disparity of the harshest kind. It is no longer enough that minority and low-income students are at risk, mainly of dropping out; rather, the risks are now made conspicuously real and gravely consequential.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Richardson, John G. and Judge, Douglas
(2013)
"The Intergroup Dynamics of a Metaphor: The School-to-Prison Pipeline,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol7/iss1/9
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
School management and organization--United States; Educational law and legislation--United States; School discipline--United States; Dropout behavior, Prediction of; Children with social disabilities--United States; Youth--United States--Imprisonment; Success in children
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text