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What We’re Reading This Week: April 26, 2019

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

Students Live in Tents, Do Homework Under Flashlights, and Deal Without Textbooks Months After California’s Massive Camp Fire 

Buzzfeed News 

“I had life set and planned before the fire, I was going to graduate high school with honor roll, which I still plan on accomplishing, and then get a full-time job for the summer and go to college. But now I am very lost and confused about what to do.” 

 

‘Punitive Discipline Makes School Feel Like A Prison, Not A Community’ 

The Hechinger Report 

“Often suspension isn’t about a child’s harmful behavior. It’s about adult assumptions and lack of awareness, especially related to race, class, gender and sexual orientation.” 

 

San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made it Worse. 

The New York Times 

“What happened in San Francisco suggests that without remedies like wide-scale busing, or school zones drawn deliberately to integrate, school desegregation will remain out of reach.” 

 

Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 in 5 Parents Wish They Did 

NPR 

“These polls are among the first to gauge public and teacher opinion on how climate change should be taught to the generation that in the coming years will face its intensifying consequences.” 

 

How Schools Are using Restorative Justice to Remedy Racial Disparities in Discipline 

Salon 

“Instead of creating pathways to liberation and opportunity ... too many schools today are pushing children into pipelines of incarceration and violence.” 

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