...In “Defining and redirecting a school-to-prison pipeline,” Johanna Wald and Daniel Losen discuss the phenomenon known to observers, advocates, and educators as the prison track, or the school-to-prison pipeline. This appallingly racist system funnels minority youth into the for-profit, industrialized prison system, which was designed to maintain the racial status quo, to replace slavery in all but name, and to cripple the minority vote to ensure its persistence. Recent trends in educational policy have made this school-to-prison pipeline a nigh-inevitable consequence for disenfranchised youth of color, despite the considerable evidence that American educational policy is terrible. American students lag behind their international peers in...
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...Gonsoulin, S., Zablocki, M., & Leone, P. E. (2012). Safe Schools, Staff Development, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Teacher Education and Special Education,35(4), 309-319. doi:10.1177/0888406412453470 This article discusses the best practices in school staff development in an attempt to change school management and discipline practices. It explains that changing school culture and replacing it with systems that supports youth development and minimizing punitive, ineffective responses to behavior problems in challenging, but not impossible. Also, the article touches base on areas discussing: The importance of providing effective staff development, professional learning communities, the Denver plan: a model for three-tiered staff development,...
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...After reading the first chapter of, Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, I found it relatable in my own family and the circumstances they faced. When reading about Chris’ situation I didn’t feel bad for him. Considering how irresponsible he was, Chris never owned up to his mistakes. He expects his mother or sister to cover up his actions until the next time he gets in trouble with the law. Chris doesn’t realize there are consequences in the situations he makes. He was spoon fed all the time by his mother who was always there to bail him out and put her marriage on the line for her son’s actions. However, I did feel awful for him after his roommate called the police on him for stealing just a pair of jeans. His roommate...
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...similar to my question, “How is School to Prison Pipeline affecting juveniles around the United States?”. In 2009, Heirtzeg wrote an article called Education or Incarceration: Zero Tolerance Policies and the School to Prison Pipeline. In the article, it mentions how the school to prison pipeline came about and how hard it is for a student who enters the school to prison pipeline to get out of it. There’s a stigma to the kids once they have entered the pipeline and label “criminals”. Racial minorities and children with disabilities are the two major groups of students who are caught...
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...Bias, along with stereotypes and individual experiences, shapes how the life of an individual will turn out. A person with positive experiences in school and home along with the help he or she needs to succeed, he or she will avoid the school-to-prison pipeline and lead a more productive life. Whereas, a person with poor experiences in one or both environments and with little to no help needed to succeed, one might fall into the school-to-prison pipeline and not reach his or her full potential. Some examples of poor experiences include being seen as a bad kid (whether it be because of a learning difference or background), struggling because of the lack of help or misused resources, falling into the wrong crowds, and many more. The lack or poor use of support and our biases...
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...programs that really drove our thinking were the expanded school mental health programs. School based mental health services do exist but the issue and need lies with the decrease in funding options. “Approximately 18% to 22% of youngsters experience mental health problems and, of those, 5% to 8% have diagnosable mental disorders or serious emotional disturbance” (Maag & Katsiyannis, 2010). Unfortunately, children placed in foster care suffer and face even more mental health problems. The services that the children receive whom are in foster care, are typically provided by the school that they attend. A lot of the programs in the schools are moving in the same direction as our Crime to Mind Pipeline and just like our proposal, those programs are in desperate need of funding. Because funding is often times a neglected topic of discussion, we aim to uncover the disparities in the budgets of federal prisons and correctional...
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...particular view is whether or not the teachers or children are to blame for the decrease in of academic progress. In the book Wasting Minds, Ronald Wolk speaks about why he thinks our education system is failing. He believes that reasons for poor performance in school have to do with poverty and race, whereas in A Nation at Risk, the writer emphasizes on performance based on the amount of test we do. That leaves us with the lingering question, is what is really causing the decline in school performance? Wolk says “the nation rushed into action with little thought or analysis,” he is referring to the many test and quizzes the government put in the curriculum because they believed poor performance came from little work. They did not take in to consideration that this might just draw students away from school. Teachers will have an excuse to be lazy and just give out handouts. In this article Wolk describes school to be hostile and alienating. It is not a fun place to learn, but rather a place to get knowledge crammed into you head....
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...Delaware’s Juvenile Justice System as compared to Other State’s Juvenile Justice Systems Ashley The juvenile justice system, just like the justice system for adults in the United States, could benefit from undergoing a few changes. Delaware is one of the states where juvenile justice policies are extremely complicated and usually result in many people losing hope and giving up, meaning a higher recidivism rate amongst our youth. The purpose of this memorandum is to propose five changes the state of Delaware could make within its juvenile justice system that would benefit the juveniles, the law enforcement officials, and the public alike. One of the first changes Delaware can take to make their juvenile justice system stand out from other states is to remove the mandatory rules to charge some juveniles as adults. Currently, only four other states do not utilize mandatory rules for sentencing juveniles as adults (Trying Juveniles as Adults, 1998). This may seem like an easy way out for some juveniles who have committed more serious offenses, but it’s important to remember that these juveniles are, in fact, still juveniles. They haven’t fully developed mentally, physically, psychologically, etc., and it’s unreasonable to charge them as adults for crimes that they have committed as juveniles. Focusing on rehabilitation for our juveniles should be a main priority, not locking them away for years on end and depriving them of services such as substance abuse counseling and...
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...Soc 120 Niyogi Final Exam Study Questions 1. Discuss two aspects of the racial formation theory (Omi and Winant). Use examples to illustrate your answer. What role does the racial state play in racial formations? 2. In the movie, ‘Race: the Power of an Illusion’ (episode 2) how did expanding democracy intersect with American society becoming increasingly “race-based”? Why did race become one of the most important parts of national life? 3. According to Brodkin what was “the biggest and best affirmative action program”? Discuss two factors pointed out by her that contributed to the success of Jews. 4. John Smith a middle class white man, has lunch with Tatum (Defining Racism) and Lipsitz (Possessive Investment in Whiteness). Lipsitz says, “The U.S. is a racist society.” Tatum nods in agreement. John says, “I know what you mean. Yesterday, I got lost in a poor, black area of Washington D.C. I stopped for fast food and a black female server ignored my order and took the order of the black guy behind me. Role play Tatum and Lipsitz. How will you (as Tatum and Lipsitz respond to Smith’s remark? We have a white dominant society. Can refer Schwalbe’s idea. Using the terms carefully. Different ethnics groups can be prejudice against others but has to be rational thinking. Its prejudice, not racist. Encountering prejudice is not pleasant but it does not effect your life chances. Police system was created for slaves – aka slave control...
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...the country, a dangerously high percentage of students—disproportionately poor and minority—disappear from the educational pipeline before graduating from high school. Nationally, only about 68 percent of all students who enter 9th grade will graduate “on time” with regular diplomas in 12th grade. While the graduation rate for white students is 75 percent, only approximately half of Black, Hispanic , and Native American students earn regular diplomas alongside their classmates. Graduation rates are even lower for minority males. Yet, because of misleading and inaccurate reporting of dropout and graduation rates, the public remains largely unaware of this educational and civil rights crisis. Recently, Congress took a first step in recognizing the severity of the dropout problem by including graduation rate accountability provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), enacted in 2002. Unfortunately, the Department of Education has issued regulations that allow schools, districts, and states to all but eliminate graduation rate accountability for minority subgroups. By doing so, Department officials have rendered these accountability measures virtually meaningless.. The implications for individuals, communities, and the economic vitality of this country are far-reaching and devastating. High school dropouts are far more likely to be unemployed, in prison, and living in poverty. Many studies estimate significant losses in earnings and taxes with economic and societal effects...
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...instilled in me the idea of service, emphasizing hard work and individual effort as the keys to success. However, as I matured and engaged with broader society, I began to recognize the systemic advantages given to me solely based on my skin color. My family played a very important role in shaping my racial identity. They taught me to be colorblind, insisting that everyone is equal, regardless of race. While this message stemmed from good intentions, it inadvertently perpetuated the erasure of racial disparities and marginalized experiences. As I became more aware of systemic racism, I grappled with the discomfort of acknowledging my own involvement in perpetuating these systems. In addition, my education further reinforced my racial privilege. School curriculums often glossed over the complexities of race and history, presenting an acceptable version of reality that omitted the struggles and contributions of marginalized communities. It wasn't until I actively sought out diverse perspectives and resources that I began to challenge my own biases and misconceptions. On the other hand, my economic identity as a member of the middle class has also greatly influenced my life. Growing up in a financially stable household provided me with opportunities and resources that many others lack. I never had to worry about where my next meal would come from, or whether I could afford to pursue higher education. This sense of security and stability has undoubtedly shaped my view of the world and my...
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...American Sociological Association’s Research and Development Department surveyed a sample of close to 1,800 seniors to find out their satisfaction with the sociology major and their future plans for work, graduate school, or both. Early in 2007 we resurveyed the class of 2005 to find out what they were doing with their bachelor’s degree since graduation.1 This Data Brief, the first in a series of downloadable publications from the second wave of the survey, provides information on the post-graduate activities of graduates, the kinds of jobs they held as of December 2006, their satisfaction with these jobs, and the changes in their overall satisfaction with the sociology major. Figure 1 compares the 2005 responses of senior majors as to their future plans with their 2007 reports as to what they actually were doing. The figure shows that in 2005, 40 percent of respondents planned to work and not attend graduate school after they obtained their _________________________________________________ 1The response rate for the second wave of the survey was 44 percent or 778 graduates. FIGURE 1: MORE SOCIOLOGY BACHELOR’S RECEPIENTS ARE WORKING, PLANS FOR THE FUTURE AT TIME 1 VS. STATUS AT TIME 2 (in Percents) 42.1 Job Only 60.3 22.2 Grad School Only 13.1 26.9 Both 22.0 Wave 1 Wave 2 8.8 Neither 4.7 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Source: ASA Research and Development Department, What Can I Do With a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology...
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...in U.S. schools, and that number was projected to increase to fifty eight million by 2015 (Howard, 2010). Over the past few decades the concern over the disparity between the rising number of students of color in comparison to, teacher of color has grown significantly (Waddell, 2012). According to Waddell (2012) researchers claimed that the demographic disparity between K-12 students and the teaching force not only harms the concept of equity , but that it also causes damaging effects on students’ achievement, particularly students of color. A growing concern about the demographic...
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...PAD 525 Discussions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & so on……. Hope this helps ! Review Texas v. Johnson. Assuming you want to sustain the conviction, make the best argument you can for how that can be reconciled with the First Amendment. Of the opinions that would have sustained the conviction, which do you find most persuasive and why? Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), was an important decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag enforced in 48 of the 50 states. Justice William Brennan wrote for a five-justice majority in holding that the defendant Gregory Lee Johnson's act of flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson, then a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, participated in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas. The demonstrators were protesting the policies of the Reagan Administration and of certain companies based in Dallas. They marched through the streets, shouted chants, and held signs outside the offices of several companies. At one point, another demonstrator handed Johnson an American flag stolen from a flagpole outside one of the targeted buildings. When the demonstrators reached Dallas City Hall, Johnson poured kerosene on the flag and set it on fire. During the burning of the flag, demonstrators shouted such phrases as, "America, the red, white, and...
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...U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation 2012 The Strategic Information and Operations Center at FBI Headquarters is the 24/7 command post that monitors FBI operations and law enforcement activities around the globe. An FBI agent examines a potentially contaminated letter during a white powder training exercise. 2012 The FBI Story I A Message from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III For the FBI and its partners, 2012 was a year that reminded us once again of the seriousness of the security threats facing our nation. During the year, extremists plotted to attack—unsuccessfully, thanks to the work of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces—the U.S. Capitol, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and other landmarks on U.S. soil. Tragically, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, a hateful attack in Benghazi took the lives of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. In the cyber realm, a rising tide of hackers took electronic aim at global cyber infrastructure, causing untold damages. High-dollar white-collar crimes of all kinds also continued to siphon significant sums from the pocketbooks of consumers. And in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 young children and six adults lost their lives in one of the worst mass shootings in American history, ending a year of violence that saw similar tragedies around the country. Working with its colleagues around the globe, the FBI is committed to taking a leadership role in protecting the nation. As you can see from...
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