Dr. Starr E. Keyes
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Bowling Green Performing Arts Center| 530 W Poe Rd | Bowling Green, OH
Dr. Starr E. Keyes is an Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University in the School of Counseling and Special Education. Dr. Keyes is interested in research related to early reading interventions, Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), teaching social skills, urban education, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) learners, and academic and behavioral interventions for students with mild-moderate disabilities. Her fall 2019 lecture considers how implicit and explicit forms of racism, ableism, and gender stereotyping contribute to deep inequities in disciplinary practices and help perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline. In this public talk, Dr. Keyes will share regional, state, and national disciplinary exclusion data and discuss a variety of strategies to combat this issue and improve student behavior and academic performance.
Contact Information:
Dr. Starr E. Keyes, ICS Faculty Fellow (Fall 2019)
Associate Professor
School of Counseling and Special Education
419-372-7296
skeyes@bgsu.edu
414 Education Building
Video and Audio Clips
For Further Information
Journalism:
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Pipeline to Prison: Special education too often leads to jail for thousands of American childrenby Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader in The Hechinger Report (2014)
- This article explores the story of a boy with special needs who was expelled from his school and what difficulties he and his family have faced in the wake of his expulsion. -
Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipelineby Nicki Lisa Cole in Thought Co. (2019)
- This article discusses a number of factors including: SRO’s (security resource officers), zero tolerance policies, exclusion from school, socialization of crime, harsh punishment and race disparities among expulsion and suspension and how they affect one’s chances of getting swept into the school-to-prison pipeline. -
Black students and students with disabilities remain more likely to receive out-of-school suspensions, despite overall declinesby Kristen Harper, Renee Ryberg and Deborah Temkin in Child Trends (2019)
- Discusses the higher numbers of suspension amongst Black students and students with disabilities. -
Students of color with disabilities are being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline, study findsby Lorelei Laird in ABA Journal (2019)
- Article explores higher rates of students of color with disabilities being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline. -
The school to prison pipeline, explainedby Dara Lind and Libby Nelson in the Justice Policy Institute (2015)
- Article explains the school-to-prison pipeline. -
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotectedby Kimberlé Crenshaw, et al in African American Policy Forum (2015)
- Essay describes the many ways in which the educational, emotional, and social wants and needs of young Black girls in school are not fulfilled and how they are more likely to be suspended or expelled.
Academic Journals
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“Just as Bad as Prisons”: The Challenge of Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through Teacher and Community Educationby Quaylan Allen and Kimberly White-Smith, published in Equity and Excellence in Education (2014)
- Academic journal article that draws upon the authors’ experiences working in schools as teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and community members This study utilizes a critical race theory of education in examining the school-to-prison pipeline for Black male students. -
Out-of-School Suspensions of Black Youths: Culture, Ability, Disability, Gender, and Perspectiveby Ann Priscilla Gibson, Wendy Haight and Misa Kayama, published in Social Work (2016)
- This article examines the out-of-school suspensions of four Black youths from the perspectives of the youths, their caregivers, and educators. -
Using Double Consciousness as an Analytic Tool to Discuss the Decision Making of Black School Leaders in Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipelineby Sheree Alexander, Julius Davis, Ramon Goings and Nicole McZeal Walters, published in Taboo, The Journal of Culture & Education, (2018)
- Journal talks about how Black students are more likely to be suspended from school than their White counterparts and how researchers, educators, policymakers, activists, and parents have forced national attention onto the need to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline (STPP). -
Trapped in a Pipeline: The Plight of T oo Many Children a n d Youth (Exposing t he School-to-Prison Pipeline)by Karen Myers, published in Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, (2017)
- A Poem discussing the possible struggles a Black boy may face labeled as “bad” in school.
Organizations
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Racial Justice Now
Racial Justice Now is an organization committed to dismantling structural and institutional anti-Black racism in all areas of people’s lives. Their primar y focus is on the education system and uplifting voices of disempowered Black parents and children. They have developed the #counselorsnotcops campaign and have drafted several policy recommendations aimed at staunching the flow of students of color into the school-to-prison pipeline. -
Teaching ToleranceTeaching Tolerance is a program committed to providing free resources to educators, teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners, who work with children from kindergarten to high school. Educators may use these materials to create civil and inclusive school committees where young people can challenge prejudice and learn how to agents of change in their own lives.
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Teachnology: Special Education Organizations You Need to KnowA list of resources for Ohio parents with children that have special needs
