Category Archives: Education

Not So Well-Regulated Militias in Schools

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Tamar Birckhead

Written by Jason Langberg Would you want armed former cops and soldiers patrolling your office? Your supermarket? Your place of worship? I wouldn’t. So why are policymakers putting them in schools? Can’t we all agree that schools should be supportive, … Continue reading →

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Steubenville: The Names Change, but the Story Stays the Same

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Tamar Birckhead

“My life is over. No one is going to want me now.” These were the words of 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond after a judge adjudicated him delinquent of rape earlier this week in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio. Hyperbole? Perhaps. But … Continue reading →

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School Policing Reform: Much Needed and Long Overdue

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Tamar Birckhead

Law enforcement officers have become commonplace in public schools throughout the United States over the last two decades. However, law enforcement officers who are permanently assigned to schools – called school resource officers (SROs) – can have negative impacts on … Continue reading →

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Schools and Our Misdirected Security Dollars

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Tamar Birckhead

The title of this post is the title of an excellent op-ed by my colleagues and friends, Professor Barbara Fedders of University of North Carolina School of Law and Jason Langberg, staff attorney and director of the Push Out Prevention Project at … Continue reading →

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Shutting Down the School to Prison Pipeline

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Tamar Birckhead

My latest piece for the Huffington Post: “School is just a waiting room to prison.” ~ African-American teenager, Washington, D.C. If you sit in juvenile delinquency court long enough, you notice a few things. Most of the kids are black … Continue reading →

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Infographic on the State of Childhood Poverty

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Tamar Birckhead

Richard LeDonne, a research assistant for Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health, used their data to create the powerful infographic that appears below. He offers this as background: Across the board, children living in poverty in the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Meridian Struggles with School-to-Prison Allegations

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Tamar Birckhead

The title of this post is the title of an excellent article by Maggie Lee at Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, which follows up on the stunning Department of Justice report issued last month on the Mississippi school district. This is … Continue reading →

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In the Margins: Books and Teachers

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Tamar Birckhead

My husband, Peter (poet/blogger, nature photographer, block party DJ), recently introduced me to the wonderful online magazine, The Rumpus, where there are two articles that I wanted to share with folks. The first is by Amy Cheney, a librarian in … Continue reading →

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The End of Crime: Why Educating Inmates is Necessary

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Tamar Birckhead

The importance of educating those in prison cannot be overemphasized.  I found the following “infographic” from onlineclasses.org (via the Prison Culture blog) and while this outfit clearly has an economic incentive to promote off-site learning, the message is absolutely legitimate. Spread … Continue reading →

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