Study on Breaking the School to Prison Pipeline

Exceptionality: A Special Education Journal has published Breaking the School to Prison Pipeline: Identifying School Risk and Protective Factors for Youth Delinquency, a study that examines the factors that either exacerbate or mitigate youth delinquency in schools and proposes policies to reduce exclusionary discipline practices, academic failure, and high dropout rates, which disproportionately affect students of color. Interested readers without a subscription to the journal will need to pay in order to access the study.