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What We’re Reading This Week: October 26, 2018

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

Los Angeles Will Wipe Out Nearly $90 Million Worth of Debt Incurred by Juvenile Offenders  

CNBC 

“Collecting fees for juvenile detention undermines youth rehabilitation and public safety. It also unnecessarily increases the financial insecurity of vulnerable families.” 

 

How History Class Divides Us 

Education Week 

“It’s easy to lose sight of the connection between what students learn in history and the civic ideals and values those topics communicate, especially since they tend to be treated as different disciplines in K-12 education.” 

 

Prairie View A&M Students Suing Waller County Over Alleged Early Voting Suppression 

Houston Chronicle 

“Since at least the early 1970s, Waller County has consistently tried to limit the political power of black voters in the city of Prairie View and at Prairie View A&M specifically by undermining their right to vote.” 

 

Parents of Transgender Children Ask Trump Administration to Reverse Course on Gender Memo 

Teen Vogue 

“A piece of paper or stamp of approval from you cannot define their existence. They are living, breathing, loving, thriving children because their gender has been affirmed by us as their parents and by those in our communities.” 

 

The Migrant Caravan, Explained 

Vox 

“The United States and Mexico have worked to make the journey to the US less appealing to Central Americans, but many residents of the Northern Triangle find the prospect of eventual asylum in the US—however difficult it is to get there—more appealing than the insecurity they’re facing at home.” 

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