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COE interns work on federal research project about proposed school-to-prison pipeline
 Special education doctoral student Sara McDaniel has spent the better part of this year gathering data and interviewing school officials, legislators and stakeholders in the Jefferson County School System in Louisville, Ky.
McDaniel is one of five College of Education students who interned
for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in the spring and summer semesters, each conducting research on a different school system in the South to determine what school disciplinary practices, if any, lead students from the classroom to the juvenile justice system - a concept known as the school-to-prison pipeline.
Peter Minarik, director of the Southern Regional Office of the Commission on Civil Rights, decided to research the possible presence of a school-to-prison pipeline after the issue came up at a meeting with the chairs of the commission's state advisory committees in the south. He came to the College of Education to find interns to study five large urban school districts in the South - more specifically, to look at each community's socioeconomic and ethnic makeup, disciplinary data and dropout rates from the school systems and statistics from the juvenile justice departments in each area.
"At issue here is the high number of African-American boys in urban settings who end up in prison. So the different chairs of the commission's state advisory committees in the south decided to look at this issue," Minarik explained. "These boys get into a little trouble and suddenly they're placed into an alternative school setting, then they drop out, and many end up in prison. It seems society might be spending more of its resources for these boys in the juvenile justice system than in the educational system."
The interns' work will be part of a series of federal reports that will be available later this year, Minarik added.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
Research Wednesdays Speaker Series
October 20, 2010
12 noon
College of Education, Room 1030
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Presenter: Robert Pianta
Topic: "Improving impacts of classrooms: Professional development and classroom observation"
Robert Pianta is the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the Novartis U.S. Foundation Professor of Education. In addition, he is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education and the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at UVA. His research focuses on policy and practice that enhances children's outcomes, school readiness and later achievement, with emphasis on the assessment of teacher quality, teacher-child interaction and improvement. He published more than 350 scholarly papers and is the lead author on several books related to early childhood and elementary education.
Research Wednesdays is held every Wednesday of the month. An RSVP is required to attend this event. To confirm your attendance, please contact Erin Whitney in the COE's Educational Research Bureau at (404) 413-8090 or ewhitney@gsu.edu.
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