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This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains. Read it and take back our schools! -Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles State property-that's what you are in prison, and that's what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and suggests on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and 'put your bodies upon the gears.' -Emery Petchauer, author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment How did we become a society that handcuffs its young and warehouses them in penal institutions instead of educating them? From Education to Incarceration answers that question and offers an intelligently crafted overview of how ill-advised and inhumane practices and policies in the United States have betrayed generations of young persons, with suggestions for how we can up-end these transgressions. Educators, attorneys, youth organizers, and many others write with authority and conviction in this timely, relevant, and eminently readable book. -Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains. Read it and take back our schools! -Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles How did we become a society that handcuffs its young and warehouses them in penal institutions instead of educating them? From Education to Incarceration answers that question and offers an intelligently crafted overview of how ill-advised and inhumane practices and policies in the United States have betrayed generations of young persons, with suggestions for how we can up-end these transgressions. Educators, attorneys, youth organizers, and many others write with authority and conviction in this timely, relevant, and eminently readable book. -Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild State property-that's what you are in prison, and that's what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and suggests on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and `put your bodies upon the gears.' -Emery Petchauer, author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment

“This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains. Read it and take back our schools!”—Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles “State property—that’s what you are in prison, and that’s what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and suggests on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and ‘put your bodies upon the gears.’”—Emery Petchauer, author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment “How did we become a society that handcuffs its young and warehouses them in penal institutions instead of educating them? From Education to Incarceration answers that question and offers an intelligently crafted overview of how ill-advised and inhumane practices and policies in the United States have betrayed generations of young persons, with suggestions for how we can up-end these transgressions. Educators, attorneys, youth organizers, and many others write with authority and conviction in this timely, relevant, and eminently readable book.”—Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

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Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute for Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Poetry Behind the Walls, and Transformative Justice Journal, along with being a co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory and Hip Hop Studies and Activism. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed book chapters or articles and over forty books. Priya Parmar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Secondary Education and Program Head of English Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her research interests are in developing curriculum using critical pedagogy and enhancing language and literacy awareness in educators who work with urban youth who have been disenfranchised by either schooling or environment. Parmar’s most recently published scholarly works include Critical Literacy in English Literature; Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop Artist KRS-ONE; and a chapter in Teaching Joe Kincheloe. David Stovall, Ph.D., is Professor of African-American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois of Chicago. His scholarship investigates critical race theory, concepts of social justice in education, the relationship between housing and education, and the relationship between schools and community stakeholders. In the attempt to bridge theory to action, Stovall has spent the last ten years working with community organizations and schools to develop curriculum that address issues of social justice.

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