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School v. Prisons: Education’s The Way to Cut the Prison Population

By Deborah Stipek and Kathryn Hanson Victor Hugo’s 19th-century remark, “He who opens a college door closes a prison,” still holds true these days. The connection between education and incarceration was made starkly clear at Stanford’s 2014 Cubberley Lecture, exactly where actress Anna Deveare Smith brought to life the difficulties facing disadvantaged youth in American schools

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Opinion: Lewis W. Diuguid

By LEWIS W. DIUGUID / McClatchyDC  John Quinones said things about education that baby boomers of color depended on for the needed lift out of America’s ghettos and barrios. “It was a lifesaver for me,” said Quinones, ABC News anchor for the show “What Would You Do?” He spoke this month in Kansas City during

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Goodbye zero tolerance: Program aims to cut 'school-to-prison pipeline'

By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News BOSTON, Mass. – At Charlestown High School, where many students come from high-crime neighborhoods, an innovative program employs a surprising method to help keep teens in school and out of trouble with the law: Encouraging them to talk to each other. On one recent Friday, nine students gathered

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