Education Law

Catalog description

The practice of pushing students out of the education system and into the legal system has become known more concisely as the "school-to-prison pipeline." This course will examine the policies and procedures of school discipline grounded in the rhetoric of law and order and the criminalization of young people. We will address the historical, social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions of the relationship between education and the carceral state, with justice as our primary focus. We will engage with philosophical, theoretical, and empirical readings from a wide variety of disciplines toward the development of meaningful research questions and a proposal for the capstone. Prerequisite: Enrollment in Urban Teaching Residency Program.