School-to-Prison

There’s something in education research called the school-to-prison pipeline that suggests students who face a lot of discipline and suspension in school are more likely to end up arrested and in jail as adults. But what else is a school supposed to do with students who are disrupting the learning of others? And how can we really say that school discipline is driving students into the prison system? Boston University education professor Andrew Bacher-Hicks is part of a team that found a novel way to get at the chicken-or-egg puzzle of this problem. (Segment produced by Olivia Young)