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The Prison School : Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, dropout rates have accelerated, and prison p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simmons, Lizbet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkerley, CA : University of California Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, dropout rates have accelerated, and prison populations have exploded. Nowhere, perhaps, has the War on Crime been more influential in broadening racialized academic and socioeconomic disparity than in New Orleans, Louisiana, where in 2002 the criminal sheriff opened his own public school at the Orleans Parish Prison. "The Prison School," as l.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:9780520293144
0520293142