Report: Schools’ high stakes testing, zero-tolerance policies lead kids to jail
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Big thanks for Kitsap Sun reporter extraordinaire Steven Gardner for spotting something ed-related and sending it my way. A new report from the Journalism Center on Children and Families finds that high stakes testing and zero-tolerance policies in schools actually accomplish the opposite effect for which they were intended. The policies results in jail time for kids.
Here’s a link to a column about the study. Read it and let me know what you think (as if I’d have to ask!)
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February 6th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Marietta, you’re awesome! Thanks for the plug touting our Kingston High School Buccaneer Band. What an exciting month it has been for the kids, watching their video rise in the rankings and trying to remember to vote every day. It will be exciting to hear how they did come Monday morning! Thanks for the support!
February 9th, 2010 at 10:09 am
http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/pipeline/Dismantling_the_School_to_Prison_Pipeline.pdf
Some suggestions on how to dismantle the school to prison pipeline. One community in Louisiana found that the newly erected juvenile detention center adversely affected their community’s economic development and shut it down. They’re now trying to turn it into a community college.
Coincidentally, Geoffrey Canada is speaking at the UW tonight. He calls his response to school to prison ‘cradle to college’. It’s more expensive up front, but it’s working, and saves money and lives in the long term.