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dc.contributor.authorVandivier, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-10T21:39:53Z
dc.date.available2021-12-10T21:39:53Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationVandivier, A. (2018) The school-to-prison pipeline: How education has failed our most vulnerable students: A meta-synthesis. Unpublished Masters Thesis, M.ed. Special Education, University of Alaska Southeast.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/12584
dc.description.abstractBeginning in the 1980’s, America began a ‘war on crime’, taking a tougher stance with longer sentencing on minor crimes. During this same time, and acting in concert, federal educational legislation began the policy of Zero Tolerance within schools. This meant that disciplinary issues, previously handled within schools, were now being addressed as criminal charges. This increased harshness and severity in punishment for school aged youth created a school-to-prison pipeline in which tens of thousands of students became incarcerated in juvenile and adult correctional facilities. The unintended consequence of creating safer school environments was that a disproportionate number of economically disadvantaged, minority, and youth with emotional disturbances were excluded from their learning environments and locked away in correctional institutions. Over the past four decades increased awareness about this disproportionality, along with a better understanding of mental health issues, has caused an upward trend in alternative educational strategies for our most at-risk and vulnerable student populations. Many of these alternative school settings still lack appropriate behavioral management interventions, social services, and mental health clinicians necessary to deal with root cause issues, but we are gradually trending back away from exclusionary, restrictive, and punitive punishments.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alaska Southeasten_US
dc.subjectMeta-Synthesisen_US
dc.subjectLiterature Reviewen_US
dc.subjectCrimeen_US
dc.subjectJuvenile Facilitiesen_US
dc.subjectPunitive Punishmentsen_US
dc.subjectStudent Incarcerationen_US
dc.titleThe School-to-Prison Pipeline: How Education Has Failed Our Most Vulnerable Students: A Meta-Synthesisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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