Author Description

This sobering treatise documents how a flawed and dysfunctional educational system condones racial bias to support the school-to-prison pipeline as a feeder for adult prisons. • Draws an explicit link between educational malpractice and the school-to-prison pipeline • Examines the topic through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates perspectives from education, public administration, the law, political science, criminal justice, and psychology • Presents historical analysis of court cases, research, policies, and programs within the context of educational malpractice and urban disparity • Reframes the issue in terms of critical race theory • Calls on parents, teachers, administrators, and society as a whole to acknowledge and address the school-to-prison pipeline and offers policy recommendations for action