Research Analysis
1. What search terms did you use to locate this research study to analyze?
I used “School to Prison Pipeline” to locate this research study.
What database id you use?
The database I used was ERIC.
What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over the others identified in the search results? I have been interested in furthering my knowledge on this topic. I am interested in how this is current situation is affecting students’ attitudes and outlooks on school and how it is affecting their academic achievement. I am also interested in what school districts and administrators are doing to combat this problem.
What is the full reference for the study in APA format?
Hope, E., Skoog, A., & Jagers, R. (n.d.). It 'll Never Be the White Kids, It 'll Always Be Us: Black High School Students ' Evolving Critical Analysis of Racial Discrimination and Inequity in Schools. Journal of Adolescent Research, 30, 83-112. doi:10.1177/07435584I4550688
2. What was the background for the research study? That is, what previous knowledge did the author describe as a foundation for the study in the “review of related literature”?
“Recent research suggest that racial/ethnic discrimination is a common experience for adolescents of color in schools and other public settings given the overabundance of negative stereotypes that situate Black and Brown youth as dangerous and threatening to society (Nicholas et al, 2008; Rose, 1994).” (Hope, Skoog, Jagers, 2014)
Although the justice system is supposed to enforce and prohibit flaws in our country's system there still is much discrimination and injustice towards people of color. The text “Fact Sheet: How Bad is the School-to-Prison Pipeline” shows how the school-to-prison pipeline, which refers to the inequality giving to the students who are doing poorly in school, is one of the many problems affecting the justice system. For example, “Others blame educators, accusing them of pushing out students who score lower on standardized tests in order to improve the school’s overall test scores” by Amurao Carla. This is important because it shows how educators are excluding students who need more help because their test scores are low. Those students are losing
America is the land of opportunities and the land of freedom, where people can carry guns and received free options like free education; Everyone can criticize anything including the government and get away with it. In the article “The School-to-Prison Pipeline” by Los Angeles journalist Marilyn Elias, she elaborates how racial minorities and children with disabilities were disproportionately represented in the school-to-prison pipeline. Elias suggest that teachers were harsher with Minorities and children with disabilities and these children were disproportionately suspended and expelled which increases the likelihood to be a drop out and wind up behind bars. It was mentioned that police on campus has helped to criminalized many students and
What was the purpose of this study? (i.e., what question(s) did the authors want to answer?)
· What conclusions did the study reach? Are the conclusions appropriate? Why or why not?
THE EFFECTS OF SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE AND HOW IT CAN BE STOPPED: A CASE OF TEXAS STATE
Your permanent record! The thing that was held over most of our heads when we were in school. Your teacher or maybe your parents threatened that your bad behavior was going to end up on your “permanent record” and ruin your life. We shrugged them off, thought they were being dramatic or crazy and didn’t think much of it. Unfortunately for some students, the School to Prison Pipeline is making the threat of a bad permanent record all too real, as well as the consequences behind it.
Upon reviewing the literature that some scholars have already research, I have found Fader, Lockwood, Schall, and Stokes and some other authors that have researched something similar to my question, “How is School to Prison Pipeline affecting juveniles around the United States?”. In 2014, Fader wrote an article called A Promising Approach to Narrowing the School-to-Prison Pipeline: The WISE Arrest Diversion Program. In the article, it mentions how the school to prison pipeline came about and how hard it is for a student who enters the school to prison pipeline to get out of it, there’s a stigma to the kids once they have entered the pipeline. By having an afterschool program called WISE might help students enter the
Rebecca London, a research professor at UC Santa Cruz, explains about how the zero tolerance policy plays a critical role in developing the school-to-prison pipeline. The zero tolerance policy was implemented in 1990 in hopes to reduce the amount of criminal related activity in schools (London 2017). Because of the policy, many minor or small infringement of the school rules criminalized at-risk students. For example, students were punished heavily for carrying nail clippers, having over the counter medications, and even cutting the lunch line (London 2017). Students who partake in any of the examples or anything similar will be suspended or face tougher consequences than normal discipline actions compared to a privileged school. By punishing
In recent years, public schools have been accused of participating in the school to prison pipeline. The school to prison pipeline refers to the growing incarceration of youths, resulting from the zero tolerance policies implemented in schools. Therefore, I decided to do my research based on the school to prison pipeline to understand what these accusations mean and their consequences. My research will be divided into three main categories; what is it and how the pipeline became common practice, how it affects the United States, and some solutions to the problem. So far, my claim is that the public schools unintentionally started to connect more students with the judicial system because of growing concern over crime. But when it became known
India Geronimo provides an essay that is an analysis of the school-to-prison pipeline and the institutional incentives that contribute to this, with the majority of statistics being derived from the United States education and prison systems. This is more of an examination of the structural causes to the school-to-prison pipeline as well. Those that are poor and minorities are victims to this trend of being scoped out from being filtered out from the education system and lured into the criminal justice system. Geronimo mentions three types of institutional entrenchment, being at the inter-institutional, intra-institutional, and interpersonal levels, explaining that they are related to the systemic marginalization of minority students. After
What did the authors say about the reliability and validity of their data collection and analysis?
What was the primary research finding and did it support the hypothesis or answer the primary question?
What are the hypotheses and do they logically flow from their review of previous studies?
1. What are each authors ' findings and explain what the findings mean. Also, what are some reasons for the variation in results? Be specific. The articles discuss this answer at length. This answer should be no less than 400 words.
Title of the article, the authors, and the title of the journal the study was published in: