Boost Education for Youth in Solitary With Books, Workbooks, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/8/194:00 AM

Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education first demonstrated that “separate but equal” is an unacceptable doctrine within our school system. Yet the doctrine of separate and unequal continues today through the placement of a disproportionate number of minority students and students with disabilities in youth detention facilities, where they receive educational services that are often underfunded and inadequately staffed.

[For more of this story, written by Kristabel Stark, go to https://jjie.org/2019/02/06/bo...c-novels-audiobooks/]

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Robert OlcottMember

For my undergrad 14th Amendment and Legal Advocacy class, we had to read Richard Kluger's book "Simple Justice:..." which chronicled the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategy leading up to Brown v. Bd. of Ed. One of my classmates was a [at that time] 65 year old Black man who'd 'grown-up' in Prince George's County Maryland--who was the only student in the class that the professor 'sat-down' for-when he raised his hand. That 'student' added much to our discussions and understanding of 'Separate but Equal', but this article is a definite welcome addition to our understanding...

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