NBER: “There Is a ‘School to Prison Pipeline’ ”

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Many years ago, I sat on the citizen board of a regional vocational-technical high school in New England.

I watched how faculty morale affected the students. For example, the school handbook prohibited the students from disrespecting the teachers but there was no reciprocal policy. One complaint I heard from others was that some teachers freely used foul language in class and toward…