The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Back

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The purpose of this Presidential session will be to address research on and the role of schools (PreK-12) and practitioners in 1) the perpetuation and disruption of the school-to-prison pipeline and 2) the facilitation of students’ return to school after alternative disciplinary placement or incarceration (school re-entry). The session will address recent advances in our understanding of the relationship between disproportionate discipline and subsequent arrest and incarceration, particularly of Black youth in the U.S. and, in the case of other countries such as New Zealand, indigenous youth. It also will leverage that research to inform our understanding of school re-entry, an area where research currently is limited.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Virginia W. Snodgrass Rangel, University of Houston

Participants

• Kaitlin Anderson, Lehigh University

• Horace Duffy, Houston Independent School District

• Eru Findlay, Massey University

• Clarissa Giddings, Houston Independent School District

• Charles H. Lea, University of Houston

• Joel Mittleman, Princeton University

• Pedro A. Noguera, University of Southern California

• Mathew Portall, Fall-Hamilton Elementary School, Metro Nashville Public Schools