Thomas sees education as key to self-betterment. It was a book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian ...

What do these school kids have in common? The teenage girl with a bladder disorder who left class without permission, ignoring a teacher and racing for a bathroom rather than wet herself; the boy who ...

(The Root) — Federal mediators and public school administrators in Meridian, Miss., have reached a landmark agreement to launch a rewards-based disciplinary plan, aimed at keeping in the classroom ...

School is back in session, and it’s time to learn about a system that funnels black and brown kids from schools into our criminal-justice system. It’s called the school-to-prison pipeline, and it’s ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Natasha Scruggs started JustUs when she was still in law school. “I was working at a juvenile justice court, and I started to see eight-year-olds in handcuffs, and I’m like, ‘We got ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - A Dorchester County alternative school is looking to inspire students through confidence and reading in hopes of opening up their doors to a brighter future. Some of ...

Before she was an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Dr. Karen Baptiste was a classroom teacher in the Bronx, standing in front of children who reminded her of herself-Black, curious, and too often ...

NEW YORK CITY — Far too often, Black children and other children of color are funneled toward the criminal justice system in their own schools, facing disproportionate discipline and criminalization, ...

Gabrielle Palmer, MA/CAGS, School Psychology Program, William James College Source: Gabrielle Palmer, MA Authored by Gabrielle Palmer, MA, and edited by Natalie Cort, PhD The School-to-Prison Pipeline ...

The school-to-prison pipeline is recruiting your child. How does this work, and how are we inadvertently helping them? Dr. Hersh Chopra is a North Carolina native. He attended Duke University and ...

One of the myths conjured up by the soft-on-crime “justice reform” crowd is that there is a “school-to-prison pipeline” that unfairly incarcerates kids for minor infractions. It follows — by the ...