Schools Spared, Children Punished

Description

Who really pays when a child falls through the cracks? Drawing on original research with Indiana public middle school principals and decades of criminology and social work theory, Dr. Gentle-Genitty shows how American education has been quietly outsourced — from family to school, from school to court — and why, when the system strains, it is the child who is punished while the school is spared. Part research study, part urgent social critique, this is the story of how we got to Attendance Science™.