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Category: David Chura
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Today's post comes from educator David Chura, author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup. He has worked with at-risk teenagers for the past 40 years. For 26 of those years, he taught English and creative writing in community based alternative schools and in a county penitentiary. His…
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When our high-stakes testing regime discourages learning, who is really the failure?
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Arizona has instituted a $25 fee for any adult visiting an inmate in its prison system. For cash-strapped families, this creates a barrier to maintaining vital connections with incarcerated relatives.
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If anyone doubts that the young people locked up in our jails are children they should spend some time in one of those prisons around holiday time.
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The number of women in prison has grown 832% in the past few decades, and society tends to demonize girls in the system as irredeemable.
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David Chura is happy to see people speaking up for kids in prison, but the fact is: those kids are still in prison.
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A night with a book club reminds an author of why he wrote his book.
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The global picture for youths in the criminal justice system can be bleak, but David Chura sees glimmers of hope in the hard work of a few individuals.
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For kids in the juvenile justice system, “graduation day” means signing some paperwork and taking a bus ride back to the same violent neighborhood.
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David Chura knows what it’s like to teach under less-than-ideal conditions, and he knows why teachers continue to do so.
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