Disrupting the School-to-prison Pipeline

The "school-to-prison pipeline" encompasses a range of circumstances whereby children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

This new volume from the Harvard Educational Review features essays from scholars, educators, students, and community activists who are working to disrupt, reverse, and redirect the pipeline. Alongside these authors are contributions from the people most affected: youth and adults who have been incarcerated, or whose lives have been shaped by the pipeline. Their writings add to the book's comprehensive portrait of how our education and justice systems function -- and how they fail to serve the interests of many young people.

A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this disturbing national phenomenon, this volume is unsparing in its account of the problem while pointing toward meaningful reforms.