Placing prison abolition on the horizon for scholars committed to interrupting the flow of young people toward prisons and jails, this article offers movement analysis, frameworks and associated questions surrounding advocacy and engagement. First, I offer a brief state of the field of research and advocacy surrounding school-to-prison work.…

This article focuses on the intersections among language, literacy, and culture, and what these intersections have meant for the author personally, and what they can mean for students who have been marginalized, neglected, or made invisible by traditional understandings of the role of education. Although not linked conceptually in the past, the…

This case highlights teacher and family conflict about how best to meet the needs of a 9th-grade student with a disability. The student's teachers view his highly involved mother as interfering with their work. The student's mother views her involvement as advocating for her child. Aspiring administrators are invited to consider how best to…