Type: Report

The achievement gap is better understood as an opportunity gap. So rather than focusing on achievement standards, education reform efforts should focus on remedying the systemic inequities in access to resources and opportunities that cause those achievement gaps and prevent students from achieving at their full potential. This report from the Alliance for Quality Education … Continued

The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the policies, practices, and conditions that facilitate both the criminalization of educational environments and the processes by which this criminalization results in the incarceration of youth and young adults. This Report discusses the literature on the “school-to-prison pipeline” and explores why the “pipeline” analogy may not accurately capture the education … Continued