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Preventing Schools From Becoming The Pipeline To Prison, Susan P. Leviton, Justin A. Browne
Preventing Schools From Becoming The Pipeline To Prison, Susan P. Leviton, Justin A. Browne
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This article looks at the education plight of low income children and explores the cost of mis-education of these individuals. The students in these failed urban schools share certain commonalities. Poverty influences how these students approach writing, speak to their teachers and other adults and how they handle conflict. Thus, these children need school and community based reforms which provide more personalized educational opportunities and a conscious effort to specifically teach the behavioral values and character skills that students need to be successful. The article then presents a model of educational reform in which law students partner with a charter …