College or Prison 2.0 The Third-Grade Dropout: The New School-to-Prison Pipeline How to Destroy It Early: A System-Wide Approach to Behavior, Absenteeism, Reading Failure, and Academic Collapse

🚨 The New Crisis

Students are no longer being pushed out primarily through suspensions and expulsions.

Instead, they are being:

Passed along without the ability to read
Labeled as behavior problems instead of struggling learners
Disengaging from school long before high school
Quietly sliding toward failure

At the center of it all is a critical turning point:

The Third-Grade Dropout

A student who cannot read by third grade is already at risk—and the pipeline has already begun.

🔍 What This Book Exposes

Dr. Jackson reveals how today’s school-to-prison pipeline is built through:

📉 Reading failure in early grades
⚠️ Misidentified behavior problems
📅 Chronic absenteeism and disengagement
🏫 School systems that promote students without preparing them

This is not accidental.

It is predictable.

And it is happening in schools across the nation.

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