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Countering Criminalization: Toward A Youth Development Approach To School Searches, Sarah Jane Forman
Countering Criminalization: Toward A Youth Development Approach To School Searches, Sarah Jane Forman
Sarah Jane Forman
Every since New Jersey v. T.L.O., the dominant narrative, particularly in inner-city schools, has been that school children are dangerous and violent, drug dealing, gang affiliated, and out of control. Under the rubric of school safety, students are stripped of the full protection afforded by the 4th Amendment while being subjected them to a model of school discipline that utilizes law enforcement officers to enforce school rules. Such policies alienate targeted youth from mainstream society, increasing the lure of counter-culture ideas, decreasing the legitimacy of the rule of law, and feeding the school-to prison pipeline. In section one, I examine …
Achieving Diversity In The Parents Involved Era: Evidence For Geographic Integration Plans In Metropolitan School Districts, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Meredith Richard, Kori Stroub, Michael Volonnino
Achieving Diversity In The Parents Involved Era: Evidence For Geographic Integration Plans In Metropolitan School Districts, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Meredith Richard, Kori Stroub, Michael Volonnino
Julian Vasquez Heilig
In the wake of the Parents Involved decision, which rendered unconstitutional voluntary school integration plans using individual student race, districts have adopted a number of alternative integration strategies to combat the re-segregation of America’s schools. One promising approach, developed by Berkeley Unified School District, uses neighborhood demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as proxies for student race and ethnicity in assigning students to schools. This study provides the first empirical assessment of such “geographic integration models” by 1) modeling how accurately neighborhood demographic and socioeconomic characteristics predicted student race/ethnicity, and 2) estimating the potential increases in school diversity under such a plan. …