Popular Articles (newspapers, etc)

12-year old NC Student Arrested for Violent Sketch

American Schools as ‘Punishment Laboratories’

Are School Zero Tolerance Policies Too Harsh? USA Today (December 3, 2011)

AREA Chicago Dialogue: Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Pipeline

Arrested for Doodling

Baltimore Youth Rally to Demand Schools Not Prisons

Birmingham Uses Pepper Spray and Beatings to Punish Innocent Students

The Black Male Conundrum by Sarah Karp

Black Students Face More Discipline, Data Suggests by Tamar Lewin – New York Times (March 6, 2012)

Black Students Face Tougher Discipline in Chicago and the U.S. by Rossi and Golab (Chicago Sun Times, March 6, 2012).

Study: Black Students Suspended More for Small Infractions by Jorge Rivas

Blanket Policies Can Stifle Good Sense

Editorial: Changing the Discipline Code

Chicago Public School Students Face Racial Discipline Gap by Joy Resmovits

Chicago Schools Plow 51 Million Dollars into Security for Zero Tolerance Policies

Civil Rights Group Threatens to Sue if Birmingham Schools Don’t Stop Using Pepper Spray

Closing the school-to-prison pipeline by Judith Browne-Dianis

The Color of Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline by Matt Kelley

CPS discipline rule changes have brought down suspensions – but not enough, critics say

Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Survey from the Field

Elementary school suspended, ages 4 to 10, jump 76% under Mayor Bloomberg’s control of schools

Half of Texas’ Students Have Been Suspended, Study Finds

Handcuffing 6-Year Olds in New Orleans? Seriously?

How Do You Discipline Black Kids in Schools?

How to End the Criminalization of Students of Color: Lessons from Louisiana by Annie Balck and Gina Womack

The Increasing Criminalization of Students (Alternet)

Minority students group rails against zero tolerance policies, security guards at city schools (Chicago)

Nashville: Nine Schools Suspended 50% of Black Boys

Nashville Schools Re-Examine Zero Tolerance Policies

New York Times Editorial: The Police and the Schools

New York’a Pushout Crisis: Why Students Don’t Graduate by Emily Shaw, Liz Sullivan, and Refat Chowdhury

NH Teenager and Juvenile Charged with Poem Threats

Office of Civil Rights to Examine Discipline of Black Students in North Carolina

Organizing to Stop the Juvenile Rail to Jail Pipeline

Playground Jail Fuels the School to Prison Pipeline

Poverty Is Root Cause of Racial Disparities in School Discipline (Editorial)

Racial Gap in School Suspensions Widens by Joshua R. Weaver

Rally Held in Support of Student Safety Act

Report Questions How Schools Mete Out Discipline (Texas)

Report Special Education and Black Students Far Likelier to be Suspended

Rethinking Suspensions to Keep Kids Learning (Education Week)

Schools, Prisons and Social Implications of Punishment: Rethinking Disciplinary Practices by Pedro Noguera

Schools Zero Tolerance Policy Too Harsh

School Reform Math in Baltimore: Fewer suspensions equals better results

School to Prison: A Pipeline That Must Be Dismantled by Theresa El-Amin and H. Berrien Zettler

Sixth-Grader Receives Suspension for Wearing Bullet Necklace

Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline in NYC

Student Arrested for Stealing Chicken McNuggets by Te-Ping Chen

Student Behavior Hasn’t Changed but Schools’ Responses Have – Op-Ed

Student Safety Act Passes City Council

Study Exposes Some Myths About School Discipline

Suspensions Down in CPS, but Stats for Black Boys Still Highest by Sarah Karp

Suspension Trap by Anna Sussman

Texas School Discipline Under the Microscope

Texas Teaches May Get Students’ Criminal Histories

Ticketing for Truancy: Improvement or Imprisonment?

With More Police in Schools, Students in Texas Get More Tickets

Youth Rally Across California to Call for an End to Harsh School Discipline

Zero Tolerance Bans on Weapons in School Lack Common Sense

‘Zero Tolerance Failed City Schools (Philadelphia)

Zero Tolerance Public School Policies Are Pre-Criminalizing Black Children

Zero Tolerance Rules Can Doom Good Students

Zero Tolerance Schools Discipline Without Wiggle Room by John Whitehead

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