One of the blogs I follow, The Journal of Education Controversy blog, has an interesting YouTube on the state of discipline in schools and how special populations are being removed from the school system and into the juvenile detention/prison system:
- YouTube Video on blog (excerpt)
- Full Video here (scroll down to 2009)
- ACLU School-to-Prison Pipeline Talking Points
This new national trend reflects racial biases, new zero-tolrance rules about disciplinary problems in schools, and may reflect a trend in removing students who perform poorly on standardized test in the era of high-stakes testing.
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