Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: 453 (Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality)

The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system’s direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets contributing to unnecessary expulsions, leaving youth vulnerable to the streets and, ultimately, behind bars. From Education to Incarceration is a must-read for parents, teachers, law enforcement, judges, lawyers, administrators, and activists concerned with and involved in the juvenile justice and school system. The contributors are leading scholars in their fields and experts on the school-to-prison pipeline. Review «This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains.Read it and take back our schools!» (Dr. Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles) «State property - that's what you are in prison, and that's what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and suggests on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and 'put your bodies upon the gears.'» (Dr. Emery Petchauer, author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment) About the Author Anthony J. Nocella Ii, PhD, a scholar-activist, is a Senior Fellow in the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. He has been an activist and community organizer dedicated to prison abolition and social justice for nearly twenty years and is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal. Nocella’s latest work includes Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement. Priya Parmar, PhD, is Associate Professor of Secondary Education and Program Head of English Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Parmar’s most recent scholarly works include Critical Literacy in English Literature and Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop Artist KRS-ONE. David Stovall, PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to his duties and responsibilities at UIC, he also serves as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice.