In this essay Ken McGrew critically examines the school-to-prison pipeline metaphor and associated literature. The origins and influence of the metaphor are compared with the origins and influence of the competing prison industrial complex concept. Specific weaknesses in the pipeline literature are examined. These problems are described as resulting, in part, from the influence that the pipeline metaphor has on the thinking of those who follow it. McGrew argues that addressing the weaknesses in the literature, abandoning the metaphor, and adopting a more complex theoretical orientation grounded in critical scholarship, will enable educational scholars to better capture the relational nature of the social phenomena being described while simultaneously making their work more useful to emerging movements for social justice.

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管道思维的危险：从学校到监狱的管道隐喻如何消除复杂性

在本文中，肯·麦格鲁（Ken McGrew）批判性地研究了从学校到监狱的管道隐喻和相关文献。隐喻的起源和影响与竞争性监狱工业综合体概念的起源和影响进行了比较。研究了管道文献中的特定弱点。之所以将这些问题描述为部分原因是管道隐喻对遵循它的人们的思想产生了影响。麦克格鲁（McGrew）指出，解决文学中的弱点，摒弃隐喻，并采用以批判性学术为基础的更复杂的理论取向，将使教育学者能够更好地把握所描述的社会现象的关系性质，同时使他们的工作对新兴的社会正义运动。