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Category: I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
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You might expect that locked up young kids are on the lowest rung of that ladder both on the block and in the general prison population. But it goes lower: incarcerated women, what I call the invisible prison population.
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Author and activist David Chura investigates the mystery of prison recidivism and comes to a surprising—yet poignant—conclusion.
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Are new education standards killing the will to learn? Writer and educator David Chura describes the intense pressure faced by students to meet ever more demanding standards set by the Common Core and Race to the Top.
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Educator David Chura makes a case for reforming the juvenile justice system, and keeping teenagers out of adult correctional facilities.
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Teachers aren’t afraid of their students, school shooters, or angry helicopter parents. What scares them most?
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Do kids learn more when they read dry government documents or when they connect with a book or poem that speaks to their experiences?
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Three questions for David Chura about the challenges and rewards of teaching.
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It is hard to achieve academic parity in the face of massive economic disparity.
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Does caring about victims of crime mean that we must take revenge on offenders? Or is there a better way forward?
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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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