Disrupting the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This panel brings together leading experts on the “cradle-to-prison pipeline” to discuss the important topic of the prison industrial complex in an age of neoliberal school reformation. This year’s theme, “The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy” is highly germane to the “cradle-to-prison” pipeline as Victor Hugo said it best, “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” But is Hugo right? The five expert panelists in this session will discuss what research tells us to be true about the cradle-to-prison pipeline phenomenon.

Sub Unit

• Social Justice Action Committee

Chairs

• Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Metropolitan State University

• Kenneth James Fasching-Varner, Louisiana State University

Speakers

• Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University

• Daniel Losen, University of California - Los Angeles

• Crystal T. Laura, Chicago State University

• William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Howard C. Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania

• Bernadine Dohrn, Northwestern University