Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
ISSN
1550-7815
Publisher
University of Iowa College of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
The war on drugs has spawned a second front-a war on education. The casualties of this war are all poor or lower-income people who cannot afford to buy a private education. This article details the consequences of this other war, and explores some legislative and litigation strategies for reclaiming educational opportunity for all Americans. First, however, we must set out in more detail the laws and policies that now deploy educational privation as punishment in public schools, colleges, and prisons.
Recommended Citation
Eric D. Blumenson & Eva S. Nilsen,
How to Construct an Underclass, Or How the War on Drugs Became a War on Education
,
in
6
Journal of Gender, Race and Justice
61
(2002).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3876
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