Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline one class at a time
Clip: 6/29/2016 | 7m 54s
Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders one class at a time.
In most states across America, education for teen offenders pales in comparison to what they'd receive on the outside. Just one third mandate that these kids meet the same standards as their public school counterparts. Massachusetts is one of them, and there the goal is to save these young offenders with vocational classes and good old reading, writing and arithmetic. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
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Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline one class at a time
Clip: 6/29/2016 | 7m 54s
In most states across America, education for teen offenders pales in comparison to what they'd receive on the outside. Just one third mandate that these kids meet the same standards as their public school counterparts. Massachusetts is one of them, and there the goal is to save these young offenders with vocational classes and good old reading, writing and arithmetic. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
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