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By Christen E. Clemson

The criminal direction: tuition Practices that harm Our Youth takes a distinct and unapologetic investigate the practices, social norms, development, and rules inside of our faculties that replicate prisons. From the actual construction to the labeling and location of precise schooling scholars, colleges are reflecting correctional associations. past the mundane and into the realm of social cliques, self-discipline guidelines, uniforms, and ethics, this booklet highlights how similarities among colleges and prisons create a hidden and unsafe setting for at-risk scholars.

While many colleges and academics are doing the simplest they could whereas dealing with price range shortfalls, it's the inherent guidelines, strategies, and normalities which are considered being a part of the varsity adventure, which may be the main dangerous for at-risk scholars. hence, this booklet highlights those occurrences and juxtaposes them with related occasions inside prisons, offering an eye-opening and daunting examine prisons and faculties.

This e-book will reason lecturers and people inside schooling to question the practices, guidelines, and norms that we think of a part of the common tuition event. a few extra key good points of this e-book include:

  • Chapter by means of bankruptcy exam of the similarities in prisons and faculty
  • Detailed examine the method of unique schooling labeling and its harmful impression on students
  • Examination of the position of social cliques and gangs in institutions
  • A precise examine the school-to-prison pipeline
  • In-depth inquiries to ask oneself approximately to enhance schools
  • Dangers of inviting college assets officials into colleges and slicing advice companies
  • Real-life eventualities

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