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Category: Progressive Education
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Chris Mercogliano calls on us to envision schools as places to teach kids democratic principles by participating in democratic processes.
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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 student at a Tennessee high school alleges that his principal verbally and physically assaulted him for wearing a T-shirt that supported the school’s Gay/Straight Alliance.
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A night with a book club reminds an author of why he wrote his book.
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Do kids need better homework? How about no homework at all?
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Glenn Branch shares his summer reading, which includes scholarly tomes and comics explanations of the origins of life.
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Teachers assign summer reading, but what do they read on their vacations? Linda Nathan shares her favorites.
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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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