The Atlantic: “[Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes From the Field] consists of vignettes, acted out exclusively by Smith and based, verbatim, on interviews with 17 people who’d somehow been touched by the school-to-prison pipeline.”
BuzzFeed: “[Loretta] Lynch was confirmed nearly two years ago, and she has made LGBT people—particularly transgender students—a priority. Her civil rights division pushed the envelope for interpreting civil rights laws, expanding their reach.”
Education Week: “During the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has taken an activist stance on civil rights enforcement, especially when it comes to students with disabilities.”
The Guardian: “Remarkably, slightly more than one-third of students—or 1,147 children— are defined as homeless here [in East Palo Alto], mostly sharing homes with other families because their parents cannot afford one of their own, and also living in RVs and shelters.”
National Geographic: “Freed from the binary of boy and girl, gender identity is a shifting landscape.”
National Public Radio: “The [U.S. Bureau of Indian Education] has said it hopes to shift into a role that provides more support, rather than issue directives. In other words, shift away from being a direct overseer of schools and give local control to tribal communities.”
The New Yorker: “There has been a great deal of research detailing how fines and fees in the adult criminal-justice system drive already impoverished people into debt, increase rates of recidivism, and lead to the incarceration of people simply because they can’t pay their court bills.”
The Washington Post: “The teacher in me recognized this as a teachable moment and wanted to help students see that disagreement need not destroy a sense of community. Civil discourse in matters about which we disagree is, in fact, the heart of our democracy.”
The Washington Post: “Despite ongoing national scrutiny of police tactics, the number of fatal shootings by officers in 2016 remained virtually unchanged from last year when nearly 1,000 people were killed by police.”
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