Racialized Educational Opportunities: The School-To-Prison Pipeline and Possible Solutions
Abstract
The development and implementation of school discipline policies and practices along with educational policy reforms across the United States, has dramatically shifted and fueled numerous inequities in education. Punitive school discipline policies along with the inequitable implementation of these policies have fueled the vicious cycle known as the school-to-prison pipeline (SPP). Specifically, the SPP is a phenomenon wherein predominately students of color are more likely to be suspended or expelled for minor infractions, relative to white students. This paper will present potential disruptions to the SPP that are currently being implemented in educational settings that were shared at the inaugural Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America (CRISMA) conference, in March 2019 at Washington University in St. Louis.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Maya (2020) "Racialized Educational Opportunities: The School-To-Prison Pipeline and Possible Solutions," Journal on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America: Vol. 2 , Article 3.